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astro[sound]bites
Episode 104: Star Destroyers

astro[sound]bites

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 44:57


That stars die will be old news for most listeners. But sometimes, stars don't just die, they get ripped apart by supermassive black holes. Cormac, Cole and Lucia discuss these so-called tidal disruption events. Specifically, how these events are connected to X-ray absorption features called extreme coronal lines. The hosts also take a look at one of the true superstars of supernova remnants: the Crab Nebula. As it turns out, studying the ejecta can give clues about the pulsar at the heart of the nebula. The discussion revolves around the every-day of doing science. Spoiler: it's not all like solving exercise sheets. A New Look at Our Old Friend, the Crab Nebula https://astrobites.org/2025/03/16/new-look-at-crab/ Exploring the remains of a destroyed (death) star https://astrobites.org/2025/03/08/exploring-the-remains-of-a-destroyed-death-star/  Space Sound: https://youtu.be/aG300vtQ1es

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
How Do You Communicate With An Alien Species?: #RetroRadio EP0352 #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 290:59


The crew of the spaceship Llanvabon, exploring near the Crab Nebula, encounter an alien vessel. Both technologically advanced species face a dilemma: they wish to establish relations but fear that revealing their home planets' locations could lead to potential threats. Hear the tale, “First Contact” from Exploring Tomorrow!CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:00.000 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Public Avenger” (November 10, 1975) ***WD00:47:13.119 = Escape, “The Vanishing Lady” (February 07, 1948)01:16:48.484 = Murder By Experts, “It's Luck That Counts” (August 29, 1949) ***WD01:46:36.133 = Exploring Tomorrow, “First Contact” (January 15, 1958) ***WD02:06:19.059 = Dark Fantasy, “The Man Who Came Back” (November 14, 1941) ***WD02:30:18.409 = BBC Fear on 4, “William And Mary” (January 10, 1988)02:59:07.689 = Five After the Hour, “New Suit” (August 22, 1945)03:23:30.329 = 5 Minute Mysteries, “Missing Ruby” (1940s)03:28:45.409 = Future Tense, “Pictures Don't Lie” (May 09, 1974) ***WD03:56:20.199 = Gang Busters, “Kidnapped Paymaster” (October 04, 1947)04:20:34.339 = The Green Hornet, “Murder By Accident” (July 27, 1939) (LQ)04:49:46.812 = Show Close (ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.= = = = =CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0352

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News
S27E132: Betelgeuse's Binary Mystery, Branson's Balloon Adventure, and November Skywatch

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 33:55


SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 132*Could Betelgeuse Actually Be Two Stars?A new study raises the intriguing possibility that the red supergiant Betelgeuse may not be on the brink of supernova, as previously thought. Instead, it might be a binary star system. This revelation, reported in the Astrophysical Journal, suggests that an unseen companion star could be causing Betelgeuse's pulsing brightness, challenging the long-held belief of its impending explosion.*Richard Branson to Co-Pilot Space Perspective's First Manned Balloon FlightVirgin Group founder Richard Branson is set to co-pilot Space Perspective's first manned stratospheric balloon flight. The flight promises a gentle ascent to 100,000 feet, offering panoramic views of Earth without the high G-forces of traditional Space tourism, marking a new era in high-altitude experiences.*Australia's Ambitious Spaceport PlansDespite not launching an orbital mission in over 50 years, Australia is gearing up to expand its spaceport capabilities. Proposals for new spaceports in Western Australia and Queensland are on the table, aiming to position Australia as a key player in the global Space industry.Skywatch: November Night SkiesExplore the November night skies with highlights including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Crab Nebula, and three meteor showers. Discover the celestial wonders visible this month and the fascinating stories behind them.www.spacetimewithstuartgary.comwww.bitesz.com

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This Week in Space 121: An Exploding Star Near You!

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 71:03 Transcription Available


A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up of light and energy. This week, astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes from the University of Pittsburgh joins us to discuss a star that should be going nova in the next few weeks--and will be visible in the night sky for about 6-7 days! T Corona Borealis (TCrB) is a binary system comprising two stars in the constellation Corona Borealis that bursts into magnitude 2 (as seen from Earth) about every 80 years--and should do so again by mid-September! Join us. Headlines: NASA's Perseverance rover discovers a rock on Mars that shows intriguing signs of potential ancient microbial life, sparking excitement among scientists Starliner Update: NASA and Boeing discuss the extended mission of the Starliner spacecraft, addressing concerns and highlighting the crew's safety and productivity Scientists uncover evidence suggesting Mercury's crust harbors a 10-mile thick diamond layer, formed by unique planetary processes Main Topic - The Visible Nova in the Sky Near You: T Coronae Borealis, a recurring nova located in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to become visible to the naked eye between now and September 2024 Novae are binary star systems where a white dwarf accumulates material from its companion star, leading to a thermonuclear runaway and a bright outburst Supernovae, in contrast, are the explosive deaths of stars, either through the complete disruption of a white dwarf or the collapse of a massive star's core Historical accounts of "new stars" include Tycho's Supernova (1572), Kepler's Supernova (1604), and the Crab Nebula progenitor (1054) Dr. Badenes discusses his research on novae in nearby galaxies and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to study the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae The crew explores the limits of recurring novae, the possibility of a white dwarf exploding as a Type Ia supernova, and the anticipated supernova of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Carlos Badenes Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: betterhelp.com/TWIS

This Week in Space (Audio)
TWiS 121: An Exploding Star Near You! - A Nova is Coming with Carlos Badenes

This Week in Space (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 71:03


A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up of light and energy. This week, astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes from the University of Pittsburgh joins us to discuss a star that should be going nova in the next few weeks--and will be visible in the night sky for about 6-7 days! T Corona Borealis (TCrB) is a binary system comprising two stars in the constellation Corona Borealis that bursts into magnitude 2 (as seen from Earth) about every 80 years--and should do so again by mid-September! Join us. Headlines: NASA's Perseverance rover discovers a rock on Mars that shows intriguing signs of potential ancient microbial life, sparking excitement among scientists Starliner Update: NASA and Boeing discuss the extended mission of the Starliner spacecraft, addressing concerns and highlighting the crew's safety and productivity Scientists uncover evidence suggesting Mercury's crust harbors a 10-mile thick diamond layer, formed by unique planetary processes Main Topic - The Visible Nova in the Sky Near You: T Coronae Borealis, a recurring nova located in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to become visible to the naked eye between now and September 2024 Novae are binary star systems where a white dwarf accumulates material from its companion star, leading to a thermonuclear runaway and a bright outburst Supernovae, in contrast, are the explosive deaths of stars, either through the complete disruption of a white dwarf or the collapse of a massive star's core Historical accounts of "new stars" include Tycho's Supernova (1572), Kepler's Supernova (1604), and the Crab Nebula progenitor (1054) Dr. Badenes discusses his research on novae in nearby galaxies and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to study the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae The crew explores the limits of recurring novae, the possibility of a white dwarf exploding as a Type Ia supernova, and the anticipated supernova of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Carlos Badenes Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: betterhelp.com/TWIS

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This Week in Space 121: An Exploding Star Near You!

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 71:03 Transcription Available


A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up of light and energy. This week, astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes from the University of Pittsburgh joins us to discuss a star that should be going nova in the next few weeks--and will be visible in the night sky for about 6-7 days! T Corona Borealis (TCrB) is a binary system comprising two stars in the constellation Corona Borealis that bursts into magnitude 2 (as seen from Earth) about every 80 years--and should do so again by mid-September! Join us. Headlines: NASA's Perseverance rover discovers a rock on Mars that shows intriguing signs of potential ancient microbial life, sparking excitement among scientists Starliner Update: NASA and Boeing discuss the extended mission of the Starliner spacecraft, addressing concerns and highlighting the crew's safety and productivity Scientists uncover evidence suggesting Mercury's crust harbors a 10-mile thick diamond layer, formed by unique planetary processes Main Topic - The Visible Nova in the Sky Near You: T Coronae Borealis, a recurring nova located in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to become visible to the naked eye between now and September 2024 Novae are binary star systems where a white dwarf accumulates material from its companion star, leading to a thermonuclear runaway and a bright outburst Supernovae, in contrast, are the explosive deaths of stars, either through the complete disruption of a white dwarf or the collapse of a massive star's core Historical accounts of "new stars" include Tycho's Supernova (1572), Kepler's Supernova (1604), and the Crab Nebula progenitor (1054) Dr. Badenes discusses his research on novae in nearby galaxies and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to study the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae The crew explores the limits of recurring novae, the possibility of a white dwarf exploding as a Type Ia supernova, and the anticipated supernova of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Carlos Badenes Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: betterhelp.com/TWIS

This Week in Space (Video)
TWiS 121: An Exploding Star Near You! - A Nova is Coming with Carlos Badenes

This Week in Space (Video)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 71:03


A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up of light and energy. This week, astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes from the University of Pittsburgh joins us to discuss a star that should be going nova in the next few weeks--and will be visible in the night sky for about 6-7 days! T Corona Borealis (TCrB) is a binary system comprising two stars in the constellation Corona Borealis that bursts into magnitude 2 (as seen from Earth) about every 80 years--and should do so again by mid-September! Join us. Headlines: NASA's Perseverance rover discovers a rock on Mars that shows intriguing signs of potential ancient microbial life, sparking excitement among scientists Starliner Update: NASA and Boeing discuss the extended mission of the Starliner spacecraft, addressing concerns and highlighting the crew's safety and productivity Scientists uncover evidence suggesting Mercury's crust harbors a 10-mile thick diamond layer, formed by unique planetary processes Main Topic - The Visible Nova in the Sky Near You: T Coronae Borealis, a recurring nova located in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to become visible to the naked eye between now and September 2024 Novae are binary star systems where a white dwarf accumulates material from its companion star, leading to a thermonuclear runaway and a bright outburst Supernovae, in contrast, are the explosive deaths of stars, either through the complete disruption of a white dwarf or the collapse of a massive star's core Historical accounts of "new stars" include Tycho's Supernova (1572), Kepler's Supernova (1604), and the Crab Nebula progenitor (1054) Dr. Badenes discusses his research on novae in nearby galaxies and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to study the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae The crew explores the limits of recurring novae, the possibility of a white dwarf exploding as a Type Ia supernova, and the anticipated supernova of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Carlos Badenes Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: betterhelp.com/TWIS

Universe Today Podcast
[Space Bites] Updates on The Great Red Spot // Black Hole Awakening // More Starliner Delays

Universe Today Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024


Universe Today Podcast
[Space Bites] Updates on The Great Red Spot // Black Hole Awakening // More Starliner Delays

Universe Today Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 18:21


How old is Jupiter's Red Spot, watching a supermassive black hole wake up, the earliest merging quasars, and Starliner still hasn't come home.

Minorityplus1 Podcast
Deepest Bluest

Minorityplus1 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 72:30 Transcription Available


Remember when LL Cool J's "Deep Blue" was a thing? We take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, revisiting cheesy early 2000s music videos and LL Cool J's varied filmography. Throw in some chaotic late-night McDonald's misadventures and our experiences with quitting smoking and drinking, and you've got an episode packed with relatable stories and side-splitting laughter. Plus, we wrap it all up with some unhinged wrestling memories and camping plans for the summer. Don't miss this wild ride through our lives and shared experiences!

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News
S27E69: Webb's Record-Breaking Galaxy Discovery and the Hunt for New Worlds

SpaceTime with Stuart Gary | Astronomy, Space & Science News

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2024 24:43


Join us for SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 69, where we uncover the latest cosmic revelations and scientific advancements.First, we delve into a groundbreaking discovery by the Webb Space Telescope, which has identified the most distant galaxy ever observed. Located a staggering 290 million years after the Big Bang, this galaxy offers unprecedented insights into the universe's infancy and the formation of its earliest stars and galaxies. We explore the methods and implications of this discovery, including the galaxy's surprising brightness and the presence of dust and ionized gas.Next, we discuss the announcement of a massive new collection of exoplanet discoveries. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has confirmed 120 new exoplanets and identified six new candidates, bringing the total number of known exoplanets to over 6000. These findings offer a rich database for studying planetary properties and environments, particularly those that may harbor life.Finally, we highlight new X-ray observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope, revealing dramatic changes in two famous supernova remnants: the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A. These observations provide stunning visualizations and valuable data on the dynamic processes occurring in these remnants.Follow our cosmic conversations on X @stuartgary, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of the universe, one episode at a time.Sponsor OfferThis episode is proudly supported by NordPass. Secure your digital journey across the cosmos with a password manager you can trust. Find your stellar security solution at https://www.bitesz.com/nordpass.Listen to SpaceTime on your favorite podcast app including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.Support SpaceTimeBecome a supporter of SpaceTime: https://www.bitesz.com/show/spacetime/support/www.bitesz.com

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
Tour: NASA's Chandra Releases Doubleheader of Blockbuster Hits

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2024


New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky — the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A — include X-ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the remains of two massive stars in our galaxy.

Why Did Peter Sink?
The Inversions (7): Creation, and how to read in the 21st century

Why Did Peter Sink?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 36:45


The six days of creation provide a unique inversion to us today, because initially the order of the objects doesn't appear to make sense. After all, the sun appears on the fourth day, after the land and oceans were created. Every middle schooler who reaches the fourth day of creation can see a problem here, because the sun surely preceded the earth in terms of formation. Did we not just read in the opening verse of the Bible that “God created the heavens and the earth”? Is Genesis already switching the order and putting the sun, which is part of the “heavens,” after the earth? Did we just go from “Heavens First” to “Earth First”?This is where we apply our modern science to the book of Genesis, and in doing so we lose the wonder. But it's ok, there is an inversion waiting for us here, too. The sacred writer of Genesis did not know that the earth was round. Or maybe he did know. Or perhaps he thought it was shaped like a sausage. The point here is that it doesn't matter. I realize that saying “The shape of the universe doesn't matter” is blasphemy to a materialist who thinks that truth can only come through scientific proof. But this is the reason why materialists tend to get nothing out of the Bible, particularly the creation story. The spiritual reading is lost entirely unless you are willing to believe in spiritual things. And the first thing that you must be willing to believe in…is God. If this first principle is not in place, the Bible will be a strange read throughout and you will be sneering the entire time. If you approach it with doubt, you will get nothing from it. If you approach it with the eyes of faith, you will get the whole universe and the heavens, too. The key piece of being “willing” does not mean abandoning reason. Rather, it means using reason with faith, because they go together. One of the greatest documents from a Pope ever written is about Faith and Reason (in Latin, Fides et Ratio). It begins like this: Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves. Thus, if you approach the Bible like a half-formed ghoul, with only reason, or only faith, or only your body, or only your soul, you will miss the point, to your detriment. If you come with only faith, you will be a Fundamentalist. If you come with only reason, you will be a cold atheist. Why be either one? Be whole. Be your whole self, as God intends us to be. (Hint: These inversions are really about becoming a whole person, body and soul, with faith and reason.) When we express belief that the Bible is “inerrant” we mean in terms of faith and morals, not mathematical truths. But if you consider “reason” to only cover provable concepts and material things, then you will be a one-trick pony who has to play dumb when considering art and beauty. No scientific answers come for the great questions, or even basic ones like “Why is a sunset beautiful?” or “Why do children bring such tears and joy?” or “How did that song change my life?” or “Why do I feel the Presence of God in a silent adoration chapel?”Beauty is a great lead-in to God, but Biblical inerrancy is a hard sell today. Thus, we should stop trying to sell it at all. I am tired of being sold. Who is not tired of being sold, when all we see is marketing from dusk ‘til dawn? I don't want a product or an experience, I would like authenticity and truth, and there is not even an atheist that I know who doesn't see both of those things in Jesus Christ. And if you don't see the supernatural in Christ, then you cannot fully see His authentic truth, as He is the way, the life, and the truth. This requires no song and dance, just as Jesus did not dance for us. We must remember the purpose of sacred scripture is not to give us the Pythagorean theorem, but rather to give us spiritual truths. When we read Genesis, at certain points we may be reading the “science” of the day when it was written, or we may not be. Just as the science of Ptolemy's day put earth at the center of the universe (and was wrong), so was the science of the day of Moses wrong about the shape of the earth. Funny, then, that “the science” can change but God does not. This is why the phrase “Follow the science” is so slippery and fraught with missteps. Truly, our model of the universe we have today will likely be quaint and silly in a century. The beauty of sacred scripture is that it opens a conversation, rather than delivering a hard answer, as we expect math to do. Here is where the idea of “mystery” bothers us modern people, but the mystery of scripture is directly caught up in the ultimate mystery of God, who created all things out of nothing, who is the “sheer act of being itself,” who formed us out of clay (or atoms if you like). What could be more fun than this escape room outside of the Garden, where at the end we can be with the God Most High, who transcends all? We love mysteries. Why shouldn't we love the conversation with the greatest mystery of all? I urge you: set your Google-brain aside, and embrace the mystery. And the first part of that mystery and conversation that gets us spun around and walking away is the six days of creation and the shape of the universe. However, this is exactly the place where if you come back to it with faith and reason, it can open up a story that transcends what happens in NASA's images of outer space. The pictures of the Crab Nebula are beautiful, but there is another view of the universe beyond the stars. The shape of things, as seen by Moses, in the spiritual view is like a house. There is an upper, middle, and lower section. You might call this the heavens, earth, and hell worldview. This is much like a house. But this is not to address anything related to science, it is about addressing the physical and spiritual reality that we occupy. Now, here we must briefly pause for the Galileo affair, the most misunderstood event in modern history. If you have not read a history of what really happened with Galileo, I recommend you read Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context, because a fascinating tale it truly is. The story you may have heard has been massaged by propaganda writers who really dislike the Church. In fact, one of the best summaries of the Galileo affair is from an episode of the History for Atheists podcast. We live in strange times. The God-deniers first stoked the myth of the Galileo story, and now various God-deniers are looking back and de-bunking the propaganda of God-deniers.Let's get to the point: the geocentric model of the universe was not devised by the Church. In fact, the model of Ptolemy came from the science of Egypt long ago. Long before that were other models, like the “Firmament” idea we find in Genesis, which many find funny today. Any beefs that we have with the shape of the physical universe is an academic discussion, not a spiritual one. Too much time and energy has been spent away from the spiritual life, and it seems that the model where the earth or humans are at the center is always a bad model. We think too highly of ourselves. (Note: we can think highly of ourselves as we are made in the image and likeness of God, but with humility in knowing that we are not God). In Genesis, the model is simple. It is speaking to our human reality. As a human being, I can look up, I can look at eye-level, and I can look down. I know there is something higher and something beneath. Here on dry land, I live on the “main floor.” The spiritual upper and lower rooms have deeper meanings. I can't go to those floors right now, but I know they are present. The error we can make is to think that our eye, on the main floor, is at the center of the universe. This is perhaps the ultimate error. The de-centering of mankind is essential to humility, and if anything, we should be grateful to science for doing just that. To be de-centered is humbling, and wonderful. Thus the simple vertical world of up/heaven, middle/earth, and down/hell in Genesis should not cause us any alarm, because if we live long enough, we will get to see this same de-centering of our own settled science. It will be proven wrong. Yes, the science we are certain of today will be modified, perhaps wildly modified, by future findings. How do I know that? First, because scientists are nowhere near the full understanding God's universe. Second, because science cannot test and verify spiritual things, as science cannot test for God. It's a ludicrous idea, like 2 + 2 = 5. Hopefully this does not shock you: our current model of the universe is wrong. Yes, it's accurate enough to build houses and space stations, but wrong in ways we don't know about yet. But that's good: it gives graduate students something to do. If the puzzle were complete, we would become bored and go crazy (mainly because we fail to realize that boredom can actually lead to serenity, but a discussion on concupiscence will come later). An inversion sits here in this space, because this is where our approach to scripture must step into the spotlight. Now, I could say this inversion is about reading the Bible in the four senses of scripture, which is critical, because these ways will expand the text for believers and unbelievers. The literal, allegorical, moral, and “how it relates to Christ” readings are all important. But there is a more subtle inversion for us. The inversion here is that we assume that all we know today is the same that we will know tomorrow, and many 19th-century Germans who thought themselves clever are beginning to look more foolish with each passing decade. The same is happening for 20th-century academics, such as those involved in the “Quest for the Historical Jesus,” as if they were Lancelot and Percival. However, in this relentless dissecting of the Bible as a dead body, scholars took the historical-critical method to its logical end. Now we have some good data and a bit of useful information from that quest. Better yet, now we can use that data to further our understanding of God. The rest we can throw away. As St. Paul said, “Test everything; hold fast what is good.” This is great advice because all of the Bible scholars who tried to turn Jesus into a common teacher of ethics or tried to reduce Moses into a mere model of the will-to-power, are now gone and so are their anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic theories. We can keep what is useful, and toss out the rest. (Julius Wellhausen, Rudolf Bultmann, Bart Ehrmann, et al: goodnight, gentlemen - thank you for the data, as we can now use it to increase our faith.)For a long time, Biblical scholars have been doing violence to the Bible because they see it as a work of literature rather than a sacred text. The era of “Comparative Religion” courses at universities is waning, as is the dogmatic absurdity of the “Q source” Gospel, a hypothetical document that does not exist. (And if anything it would be an early version of Matthew in Hebrew, written by the apostle named Matthew.) In another twenty years, a vast swath Biblical scholarship will be swept aside and flung into oblivion, as artifacts of an era riddled with excess curiositas and too little humilitas. However, we are living in a long hangover from attacks on scripture, and need some fasting (not Taco Bell) to cure this hangover. The old German doubters' and comparative literature ideas are still ringing in lecture halls, killing off one student's faith at a time. Professors of Bible scholarship can't get hired if they disagree with a secular dogma of a Bible that doesn't believe in miracles, spirits, or even God. This begs many questions that we'll avoid for now. For the past two centuries, academics have been approaching the Word of God with “reason alone” and using suspicion as their interpretive key, but the key has worn out, or God has replaced the locks. When we hear that Jesus' miracle of multiplying the loaves and fishes was just people sharing the bread that they had brought, we should laugh out loud. This miracle is one of the few that all four Gospel writers recorded. “Sharing” is not a miracle. Sharing is great, but it's not mind-blowing or life-changing. The apostles did not get bludgeoned, burned, and buried to proclaim the good news of “sharing.” Sharing is nice, but we know all about sharing without God becoming incarnate and dying on a cross to defeat the world, the flesh, and the devil.So we come to the inversion of how we should approach the Word of God. Even before you open the book, this approach decides what you will receive from the text. In the introduction to the Navarre Bible, a quote sums up the way we should approach the Bible, which inverts the way modern scholars read:“…the interpretations of Scripture should never be approached as a research exercise dependent on the researcher's technical skills. It is, rather, an encounter with the Word of God in the living Tradition of the Church…” (Pentateuch, p 16.)For several centuries now, we have been poking at the Bible like a dead trout washed up on the riverbank. But the Bible is much more like a giant whale that cannot be caught…yes, like Moby Dick. We have stopped reading the Word as sacred and started reading it like a biology book, where nothing supernatural or exciting ever occurs. We need to read it like it has the answers to the Biggest Questions, because it does.The death of many people's faith began in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation, as we began to discover new places and models of the universe. I do believe that this was all part of God's plan. Of course it was; everything is part of God's plan. Likewise, God's truth about the universe will lead to the death of our modern idols, too. It is inevitable. In the thousands of years from the first Passover to the Paschal Mystery to today, many great saints lived alongside many sinners, and many saints started out as great sinners. This exit and return from God, back to God is indeed the road home, as the parable of the Prodigal Son said (and so say we all!). The parable of the weeds and wheat applies in history and today, and it applies within each one of us. And like King Josiah had to smash to the idolatrous “high places” in the book of 2 Kings, so must we, and today the main idol that is a stumbling block for faith is not a golden statue or stone pillar, but ideologies and the idol of the “self.” Idols always need smashing. We are in yet another era of strange idols, so let's get to smashing (don't smash yourself, just the false image of the “self” as idol.) If you think God is not working to do the same things now to the idols of modernity as he did to past idols, your assumption of final knowledge will eventually come for you, or even burn you, just like it did to so many 19th century Germans' grandchildren in the 20th century. As for those who believed in such silly things as a flat earth and six day creation, those people were not as simple as we think. Rather, we too will seem simple in a hundred years, let alone a thousand, if the Lord does not return before then. Remember that Genesis is not teaching science or the shape of the universe - that is the task of the scientists and scribes of each age. What sacred scripture teaches is humility before God. If we approach scripture with humility, we will see the forest instead of the tree. If we approach the Word of God in wonder, we will choose the tree of life, rather than the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The tree of knowledge is the one that says, “I know better than God.” In defense of those ancient scientists and scribes, let's imagine for a minute what the world looked like to them:When we live purely by the senses, without the aid of telescopes and books and knowledge handed down, the world does appear to be flat. While I am not a “flat earther,” most of the time the world is actually flat. Most of the time, I am not pondering the sphere I am standing on. I am getting groceries or walking the dog, and everywhere I go is flat in this Minnesota prairie land. Thus, it's reasonable that people believe in a flat earth because we cannot see the sphere. However, we have come to know better through reason, which is a great gift from God to us. With reason, we can use induction and deduction to arrive at conclusions. We can even make proofs about the roundness of the world. What we “know” by the senses alone is not always accurate. Our senses can fool us. This is why seductive beauty can be so deadly, but also life-giving. Beauty is like water or fire in this way, where it can aid life or destroy it. However, the same applies to reason, and by reason alone we can only get so far. By reason alone, we cannot reach the spiritual unseen realm, but we can know it dimly by logic and science. Yet there is more. By art, music, and literature, we can know of spiritual realities. Just as we can measure the earth by reason, we can at least open the door a crack to spiritual realities by art. Everyone has a song or lyric that brings tears to their eyes, a feeling that touches on something deeper than they can articulate. But to fully open the door to faith beyond this world and life requires a “willingness” to be willing, and the act of faith by our will invites our intellect into a broad new expanse that is beyond all sense and calculation. Observation and reason can take us to the door, but faith must place the key in the lock and turn it to walk into that panoramic spiritual valley. Since I cannot see all things at once, I take it on faith, from science, that the earth travels around the sun, not the other way around. I really have no means (or motivation) to prove it, which is why it makes sense to me that, prior to Copernicus, the prevailing wisdom and mathematical models did not have the sun at the center of the solar system but rather the earth. My eyes can see that the sun travels over the sky - yet the senses can deceive us. I myself have not empirically proven that the sun is at the center of the solar system, but it's wonderful that mathematicians and scientists managed to prove it. But contrary to popular belief, this dance of the sun and earth does no damage to the religious truth presented in Genesis. None whatsoever, because the two things are related yet separate. Here is something important to pause on: for people who lost their faith because the earth was no longer at the center of the solar system - they were inverted the wrong way. They were not seeing God correctly. Their God was too small. Likewise, when the “New World” was discovered, a falling away from faith occurred in Europe. Enlightenment writers said that that “man was decentered” by science; man was knocked off a pedestal by the findings of Galileo and Darwin and others. Also, geology and the discovery of dinosaur bones put man into a tiny sliver of time, making him question his centrality in the order of the universe. When I was young, this all seemed to point to religion as the enemy of the truth. Having been raised in the cult of Protestant liberalism (also called the United States of America), this made for a very strange childhood experience. We were like the mythical Pushmi-Pullyu animal of Dr. Doolittle, getting yanked in two directions by two heads. On the one end, all the history books and literature showed that science had dethroned man as the measure of all things. Then on the other end, the cults of liberalism and humanism preached freedom, self-esteem. So at the same time: I was being showered with praise for my uniqueness and specialness while scientific proofs declared me smaller and smaller. Is it any wonder that we are now confused? These two things don't flow together well. If man is not central, but is merely matter, then what ruse are the humanists trying to play with the endless plug of uniqueness? This raises a larger question, however. If man is not special, and is instead like any other species, to what do owe our “self-esteem”? If there is no soul, as public school and modern media taught us, then meaning is only what we make for ourselves, is it not? This is a tall order for each person to determine, since we must all start from scratch. But the truth is: we don't need to do any of that, if we submit our intellect and will to God. The question is already answered, if we are only willing to set pride and vanity aside for peace and hope. Truly, none of this can make sense without God as the beginning and end of all things. Thus the phrase, “made in the image and likeness of God” is so powerful, because it puts us into a relationship with His transcendence, into a nearby friendship that resolves both our smallness and our uniqueness. He is not so far that we cannot know him, nor so close that we are him. We are not God, but we are his friends. The contradiction here is that the Enlightenment spilled much ink, and even more blood, in attempts at making meaning. When the various revolutions of liberalism and communism and capitalism failed to bring the cure for sin, the humanists took up the standard and attempted to shock us to life with a foundationless hype regarding self-worth. But without God, it falls flat. Now: the problem is as follows. Placing man or the self at the center is an error. Genesis and the order of creation de-centers us. We are more valuable than many sparrows, yes, but we are not more valuable than God, or even the angels. Knowing our placement in creation brings freedom, because it allows us to willingly bend the knee to God for his grace and glory. From our proper place we can love and serve. Some people believe that the dinosaurs bones were sown into the earth to test our faith. While I find this to be absurd, it's not exactly wrong. Because if the existence of giant reptiles from a period long ago causes us to lose belief in God, then we had an error-ridden faith to begin with. If the concept of evolution upsets our ability to kneel and pray, perhaps we have never really kneeled and prayed. If anything upsets our trust in God, then we may be projecting what we want to be God, rather than receiving in humility what is God's truth. This is not a defense of creationism or darwinism or liberalism or any other “ism”: this is a goodbye to human pride masquerading as faith in God. The truth is that we are not the central item of all creation, we are a part of all creation, and a very important part. We are loved by God, more than the rest of creation. We are different from all other creatures. We are special, but not more special than God. Coming to trust in God's will means to follow Jesus' advice to “consider the lilies of the field” who do God's will without toiling or spinning. They do not worry, they do not fear - they reach up their petals to heaven, glorifying his creation. What I am getting at goes all the way back to Christ on the Cross. Upon the Cross you have the summary of all necessary first principles. On the Cross, the strangest experience in all history happened. The theory of evolution should not disturb you. The Christian story of the Creator of the universe being born into this world by a woman named Mary, living among us, performing miracles, and then being crucified by us - that is what should disturb you if you fully come to understand what it means. Dinosaur bones? The beak of the finch? A new continent across the Atlantic? The sun's position in the sky? Those are the things that made us stop believing? Those are the things that led us away from God and into the dead arms of modern idols? We trade our inheritance far too cheaply. What this means is something troubling. Most of us believers are not that serious. Most of us are just in it for Donut Sunday and cultural benefits. We may say, “Jesus, I trust in you,” but not really mean it like St. Faustina did. We were warned by Jesus about Donut Sunday faith. He said “…there are many who will say, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?' Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.'” And in hell, of one thing I am certain: there are no donuts on Sunday or any other day of the week.No wonder our faith was sunk. Our trust is really in ourselves. We say we trust and believe, but we don't. We don't go out into the world and take action like Abraham did. We don't comply with God's will like Moses did, when he insanely walked into Egypt to scold Pharoah, the most powerful man in the world. More than words or going through the motions, real trust in God means doing, partaking of the Sacraments, and even praying for your enemies. When geocentrism or evolution causes us to stop believing, we are like Peter walking on water who focuses on the wind. As the Lord said to Peter as he fell into the water, “Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?” No finding or discovery should shake our faith. If anything, it is only a test to find out if we trusted God in the first place. As the Lord said to the Apostles, “In this world you will have trouble, but take heart, for I have conquered the world.” We are too afraid to fully trust. St. John Henry Newman said, “Ten thousand difficulties make not one doubt,” and here I've only listed four: dinosaur bones, beaks, the discovery of the Americas, and the position of the sun. That leaves 9,996 difficulties yet to go before a single doubt should even be entertained. If Darwin or Columbus or Copernicus or Diplodocus caused our faith to die, then our faith was not sailing free and fully trusting God, but was moored to the dock of the self long before we arrived at our current wacky age of postmodernism. The key to understanding where we sit in the order of creation is to know that God is far beyond our understanding, yet is simple, true, good, beautiful, omnipotent, and omnipresent. The key to the good life is knowing that God is at the center, not me. If a discovery here on earth is made, nothing about God changes. New findings should not rattle faith if the right ordering and principles are in place, because truth cannot contradict truth. And none of the revelations of science in the last five hundred years have done anything to displace the truth of “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”Where the earth sits in the universe, where mankind sits in time and space, how our thumbs may have developed, or what land is discovered, what formulas are yet to be discovered - none of these things disrupt or shake the Creator of all, from whom all Being extends. If any of these things shattered faith, or embarrassed believers, then the faith was not built upon a rock but was actually sitting on sand. Evolution or heliocentrism changes nothing about faith and morals, beginnings and endings, bodies and souls. It just changes the map of the heavens, or the timeline of salvation. But God is always up, and hell is always down. As for God, these revelations are like me throwing a pebble at the moon from my driveway. Not only can the pebble not reach the moon, even if it could, it would have no impact. To me, the findings of evolution are interesting but not that important for the Biggest Questions, because humility before God has precedence. If his creation developed, it seems all the more amazing. However we came to the day of the Fall, the Fall happened, and it happened with the first two people from which we all inherit our concupiscence. The topic of how my body or brain may have developed is interesting, but not necessary for salvation. If the Fall happened 6,000 years ago or 60 billion - it makes no difference. I must live today and keep God's commandments, not because I have to but because I want to. The Fall happened, and that's what matters, and I can prove it by own penchant for sin, and I can only overcome it through the work of Jesus' redemptive suffering. If tomorrow aliens arrive, a believer should not be alarmed. The best thing to do would be to invite Gleep-Glorp to Holy Mass. If tomorrow the physicists do indeed prove there are infinite universes or that we are living in a video game, this should have no impact on a faith that knows that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is the certainty in which you may sail uncharted waters, outlast storms, converse with aliens, navigate confusion, resist mutiny, endure war, suffer famine, persevere in poverty, ignore propaganda, and resist fear. The main thing to be wary of is those who preach against the spiritual truth of the creation, the fall, and the resurrection. Thinking about the cosmology of the universe is fascinating because it all leads to greater wonder in creation. But in my day-to-day life, I need to prepare food on the main floor of this “house.” In some respects, you might say that I offer up prayers to the top floor, while living on the main floor, and as for the basement - well, I don't want to go there. The house is haunted with spirits. There are spirits on every floor of the house. And the sooner you realize this, the less fearful you will be, because even now they are watching you. They are always watching you. I don't want to scare you at the end of this inversion, but as Nirvana said in its lyrics: Just because you're paranoidDon't mean they're not after you The next inversion is about angels and demons. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whydidpetersink.substack.com

James Webb Space Telescope
Neutron Star emissions found by James Webb Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 6:43


NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The supernova, known as SN 1987A, was a core-collapse supernova, meaning the compacted remains at its core formed either a neutron star or a black hole. Evidence for such a compact object has long been sought, and while indirect evidence for the presence of a neutron star has previously been found, this is the first time that the effects of high-energy emission from the probable young neutron star have been detected.Supernovae – the explosive final death throes of some massive stars – blast out within hours, and the brightness of the explosion peaks within a few months. The remains of the exploding star will continue to evolve at a rapid rate over the following decades, offering a rare opportunity for astronomers to study a key astronomical process in real time.Supernova 1987AThe supernova SN 1987A occurred 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was first observed on Earth in February 1987, and its brightness peaked in May of that year. It was the first supernova that could be seen with the naked eye since Kepler's Supernova was observed in 1604.About two hours prior to the first visible-light observation of SN 1987A, three observatories around the world detected a burst of neutrinos lasting only a few seconds. The two different types of observations were linked to the same supernova event, and provided important evidence to inform the theory of how core-collapse supernovae take place. This theory included the expectation that this type of supernova would form a neutron star or a black hole. Astronomers have searched for evidence for one or the other of these compact objects at the center of the expanding remnant material ever since.Indirect evidence for the presence of a neutron star at the center of the remnant has been found in the past few years, and observations of much older supernova remnants –such as the Crab Nebula – confirm that neutron stars are found in many supernova remnants. However, no direct evidence of a neutron star in the aftermath of SN 1987A (or any other such recent supernova explosion) had been observed, until now.The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a well-known and recently-observed supernova known as SN 1987A. At left is a NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image released in 2023. The image at top right shows light from singly ionized argon (Argon II) captured by the Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) mode of MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). The image at bottom right shows light from multiply ionized argon captured by the NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph). Both instruments show a strong signal from the center of the supernova remnant. This indicated to the science team that there is a source of high-energy radiation there, most likely a neutron star.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Fransson (Stockholm University), M. Matsuura (Cardiff University), M. J. Barlow (University College London), P. J. Kavanagh (Maynooth University), J. Larsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)Claes Fransson of Stockholm University, and the lead author on this study, explained: “From theoretical models of SN 1987A, the 10-second burst of neutrinos observed just before the supernova implied that a neutron star or black hole was formed in the explosion. But we have not observed any compelling signature of such a newborn object from any supernova explosion. With this observatory, we have now found direct evidence for emission triggered by the newborn compact object, most likely a neutron star.”Webb's Observations of SN 1987AWebb began science observations in July 2022, and the Webb observations behind this work were taken on July 16, making the SN 1987A remnant one of the first objects observed by Webb. The team used the Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) mode of Webb's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), which members of the same team helped to develop. The MRS is a type of instrument known as an Integral Field Unit (IFU).IFUs are able to image an object and take a spectrum of it at the same time. An IFU forms a spectrum at each pixel, allowing observers to see spectroscopic differences across the object. Analysis of the Doppler shift of each spectrum also permits the evaluation of the velocity at each position.Spectral analysis of the results showed a strong signal due to ionized argon from the center of the ejected material that surrounds the original site of SN 1987A. Subsequent observations using Webb's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) IFU at shorter wavelengths found even more heavily ionized chemical elements, particularly five times ionized argon (meaning argon atoms that have lost five of their 18 electrons). Such ions require highly energetic photons to form, and those photons have to come from somewhere.“To create these ions that we observed in the ejecta, it was clear that there had to be a source of high-energy radiation in the center of the SN 1987A remnant,” Fransson said. “In the paper we discuss different possibilities, finding that only a few scenarios are likely, and all of these involve a newly born neutron star.”More observations are planned this year, with Webb and ground-based telescopes. The research team hopes ongoing study will provide more clarity about exactly what is happening in the heart of the SN 1987A remnant. These observations will hopefully stimulate the development of more detailed models, ultimately enabling astronomers to better understand not just SN 1987A, but all core-collapse supernovae.These findings were published in the journal Science.The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

devtools.fm
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot, Lucas Nogueira - Tauri

devtools.fm

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 71:09


This week we're joined by Daniel Thompson-Yvetot and Lucas Nogueira to talk about Tauri, a framework for building smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications. We talk about the advantages of Tauri over Electron, the importance of security in open source software, and the future of cross-platform apps with Tauri. After that we talk about the importance of governance in open source projects and how Tauri is approaching it with their new company Crab Nebula. https://crabnebula.dev https://tauri.app/ https://github.com/crabnebula-dev/devtools https://github.com/lucasfernog Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
The rendering dilemma with Atila Fassina

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2023 41:32


In a sea of frameworks, what provides the best way to handle reactivity? Atila Fassina, DevRel Engineer at Crab Nebula and Google Dev Expert, returns to answer this question, talk about why Signals and Solid.js are good options, and more. Links https://atila.io https://github.com/atilafassina https://www.youtube.com/c/atilaio We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Emily, at emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com (mailto:emily.kochanekketner@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Atila Fassina.

Universe Today Podcast
[Space Bites] Ancient Planet Inside Earth // HUGE Exoplanet Discovery // Cannibal Betelgeuse

Universe Today Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023


A new system found with 7 Earth and Super-Earth Sized planet, the remains of another planet inside the Earth, and it's time to replace your wallpaper again with this new image of the Crab Nebula from JWST.

Universe Today Podcast
[Space Bites] Ancient Planet Inside Earth // HUGE Exoplanet Discovery // Cannibal Betelgeuse

Universe Today Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 18:28


A new system found with 7 Earth and Super-Earth Sized planet, the remains of another planet inside the Earth, and it's time to replace your wallpaper again with this new image of the Crab Nebula from JWST.

James Webb Space Telescope
James Webb update from NASA - Crab Nebula

James Webb Space Telescope

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 5:01


The Crab Nebula Seen in New Light by NASA's Webb and Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant's puzzling history.From the NASA Webb Telescope TeamAnd for October 30, 2023NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 CE by 11th-century astronomers, the Crab Nebula has continued to draw attention and additional study as scientists seek to understand the conditions, behavior, and after-effects of supernovae through thorough study of the Crab, a relatively nearby example.Using Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), a team led by Tea Temim at Princeton University is searching for answers about the Crab Nebula's origins.“Webb's sensitivity and spatial resolution allow us to accurately determine the composition of the ejected material, particularly the content of iron and nickel, which may reveal what type of explosion produced the Crab Nebula,” explained Temim.At first glance, the general shape of the supernova remnant is similar to the optical wavelength image released in 2005 from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: In Webb's infrared observation, a crisp, cage-like structure of fluffy gaseous filaments are shown in red-orange. However, in the central regions, emission from dust grains (yellow-white and green) is mapped out by Webb for the first time.Additional aspects of the inner workings of the Crab Nebula become more prominent and are seen in greater detail in the infrared light captured by Webb. In particular, Webb highlights what is known as synchrotron radiation: emission produced from charged particles, like electrons, moving around magnetic field lines at relativistic speeds. The radiation appears here as milky smoke-like material throughout the majority of the Crab Nebula's interior.This feature is a product of the nebula's pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star. The pulsar's strong magnetic field accelerates particles to extremely high speeds and causes them to emit radiation as they wind around magnetic field lines. Though emitted across the electromagnetic spectrum, the synchrotron radiation is seen in unprecedented detail with Webb's NIRCam instrument.To locate the Crab Nebula's pulsar heart, trace the wisps that follow a circular ripple-like pattern in the middle to the bright white dot in the center. Farther out from the core, follow the thin white ribbons of the radiation. The curvy wisps are closely grouped together, outlining the structure of the pulsar's magnetic field, which sculpts and shapes the nebula.At center left and right, the white material curves sharply inward from the filamentary dust cage's edges and goes toward the neutron star's location, as if the waist of the nebula is pinched. This abrupt slimming may be caused by the confinement of the supernova wind's expansion by a belt of dense gas.The wind produced by the pulsar heart continues to push the shell of gas and dust outward at a rapid pace. Among the remnant's interior, yellow-white and green mottled filaments form large-scale loop-like structures, which represent areas where dust grains reside.The search for answers about the Crab Nebula's past continues as astronomers further analyze the Webb data and consult previous observations of the remnant taken by other telescopes. Scientists will have newer Hubble data to review within the next year or so from the telescope's reimaging of the supernova remnant. This will mark Hubble's first look at emission lines from the Crab Nebula in over 20 years, and will enable astronomers to more accurately compare Webb and Hubble's findings.Learn More: Crab NebulaWant to learn more? Through NASA's Universe of Learning, part of NASA's Science Activation program, explore images of the Crab Nebula from other telescopes, a 3D visualization, data sonification, and hands-on activities. These resources and more information about supernova remnants and star lifecycles can be found at NASA's Universe of Learning.The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.NASA's Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5953955/advertisement

Daily World News
Tuesday October 31st, 2023: Prominent Iranian lawyer beaten, Venezuela's opposition primaries suspended, and more

Daily World News

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 5:21


Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested and beaten, Venezuela's supreme court suspends opposition primaries, New Zealand volcano owner found guilty of safety breaches, James Webb Space Telescope captures new details of Crab Nebula, China predicts increase in winter power demand, record 6.9 million people displaced in Congo conflict, Russian citizens commemorate victims of Stalin's purges, Michael Bloomberg pledges $44 million to Israeli emergency medical service.

Bob Enyart Live
RSR's List of Not So Old Things

Bob Enyart Live

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2023


-- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion."Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation. * Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient. * Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old", with RWU's oceanography textbook also putting it at "0.001 mm per thousand years." But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the claim that the fetus is "part of the woman's body," since the little boy's y chromosome could never be part of mom's body). Based on documented mutation rates on and the extraordinary lack of mutational differences in this specifically male DNA, the Y-chromosomal Adam would have lived only a few thousand years ago! (He's significantly younger than mtEve because of the genetic bottleneck of the global flood.) Yet while the Darwinian camp wrongly claimed for decades that humans were 98% genetically similar to chimps, secular scientists today, using the same type of calculation only more accurately, have unintentionally documented that chimps are about as far genetically from what makes a human being a male, as mankind itself is from sponges! Geneticists have found now that sponges are 70% the same as humans genetically, and separately, that human and chimp Y chromosomes are  "horrendously" 30%

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PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
Building marketable apps with Eleftheria Batsou

PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2023 31:47


Learn how to create a UX and UI that is not only marketable, but also usable with Eleftheria Batsou, Community Manager at Crab Nebula. Links https://twitter.com/BatsouElef https://github.com/eleftheriabatsou https://www.youtube.com/c/eleftheriabatsou https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleftheriabatsou https://limey.io/batsouelef https://blog.eleftheriabatsou.com Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we'll send you a $25 gift card! If you're interested, schedule a call with us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) or you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com (mailto:kate@logrocket.com) Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Eleftheria Batsou.

Hitchhikers and Appetizers
S6E28 - Coreee From The Crab Nebula

Hitchhikers and Appetizers

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2023 33:02


Coreee is a lump of coral from the Crab Nebula where crabs rule and there's no soda on Tuesdays.

When the Curves Line Up
2023, March 14: Mars-Zeta Tauri Conjunction, Morning Moon

When the Curves Line Up

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2023 5:46


March 14, 2023: Before sunrise, the moon is near Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius. After sundown, Mars passes Zeta Tauri for the third conjunction. The Red Planet is near the Crab Nebula. This episode is also available as a blog post: 2023, March 14: Mars-Zeta Tauri Conjunction, Morning Moon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-l-hunt/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-l-hunt/support

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Crab Nebula៖ ណេប៊ុយឡាដែលបន្សល់ទុក​ពី​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា កត់ត្រាទុក​ដោយ​តារាវិទូចិន​ កាល​ពីឆ្នាំ១០៥៤

ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តពិភពលោក

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2022 7:29


កាលពីឆ្នាំ១០៥៤ តារាវិទូ​ចិន​បាន​សង្កេតឃើញ​ផ្កាយ​ដ៏ចម្លែក​មួយ​ដួង ដែល​គេ​មិន​ធ្លាប់​ឃើញ​ពីមុនសោះ ស្រាប់តែ​លេចមុខឡើង នៅ​ក្នុង​ផ្កាយគោ (Taurus) ហើយ​មាន​ពន្លឺ​ភ្លឺ​ខ្លាំង ដែល​អាច​ឲ្យ​គេ​មើល​ឃើញ​សូម្បីតែ​នៅពេល​ថ្ងៃ​។ បច្ចុប្បន្ន​នេះ អ្នក​វិទ្យាសាស្រ្ត​ស្រាវជ្រាវ​ដឹង​បានថា អ្វីដែល​តារាវិទូ​ចិន​សង្កេតឃើញ និង​កត់ត្រា​ទុក​នៅ​ឆ្នាំ១០៥៤​នោះ គឺ​ជា​បាតុភូត​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា ដែល​បច្ចុប្បន្ន​បន្សល់ទុក​នូវ​ណេប៊ុយឡា​ឈ្មោះ "Crab Nebula" ដែល​មាន​មុខកាត់​រហូតដល់​ទៅ ១០ឆ្នាំ​ពន្លឺ។ នៅពេលដែល​ផ្កាយ​មួយ​អស់ជីវិត​ហើយ​ត្រូវ​ផ្ទុះ​ទៅ​ជា​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា សារធាតុ​​ដែល​នៅ​ស្រទាប់​ខាង​ក្រៅ​របស់​ផ្កាយ ត្រូវ​សាយភាយ​ចេញ​ទៅ​ក្នុង​ទីអវកាស ហើយ​បង្កើត​បាន​ជា​បណ្តុំ​ធូលី និង​ឧស្ម័ន ដែល​មាន​រាង​ដូចជា​ពពក ហើយដែល​គេ​ឲ្យឈ្មោះ​ថា « Nebula »។  នៅក្នុង​ចំណោម Nebula អស់ទាំងនេះ មាន Nebula មួយ ដែល​គេស្គាល់​ជាទូទៅ​ច្រើន​ជាងគេ គឺ Crab Nebula។ Crab Nebula ដែលមានឈ្មោះ​ផ្លូវការថា « Messier-1 » ឬ​ហៅដោយខ្លីថា « M1 » មានទីតាំង​ស្ថិត​នៅ​ក្នុង​ផ្កាយគោ (Taurus) និយាយ​ឲ្យចំ គឺ​ស្ថិត​នៅ​ក្បែរ​ខាងចុងស្នែងមួយ ក្នុង​ចំណោម​ស្នែង​គោទាំងពីរ ហើយ​នៅ​មិន​ឆ្ងាយ​ប៉ុន្មាន​ពី​ផ្កាយ​ Aldebaran ដែល​ជា​ផ្កាយ​ដ៏​ភ្លឺ ​ពណ៌ក្រហម​ ស្ថិត​នៅ​ចំភ្នែក​គោ។ គិតមកទល់នឹង​ឆ្នាំ២០២២​នេះ រូបភាព​យ៉ាងច្បាស់ និង​យ៉ាង​លម្អិត​បំផុត​របស់ Crab Nebula គឺ​រូបភាពដែល​ថត​ដោយ​តេឡេស្កុប​ហឺបល នៅក្នុងចន្លោះ​ពី​ឆ្នាំ១៩៩៩ ដល់​ឆ្នាំ២០០០ ដោយ​នៅ​ក្នុង​រូបភាព​នេះ គេ​អាច​សង្កេតឃើញ​យ៉ាងច្បាស់​នូវ​សារធាតុ ដែល​បំភាយចេញ​ពី​ផ្កាយ​ក្នុងបាតុភូត​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា ដោយ​ពណ៌នីមួយៗ​នៅ​ក្នុង​រូបភាពនេះ កំណត់​អំពី​សារធាតុ​ផ្សេងៗគ្នា ក្នុងនោះ សារធាតុ​ដែល​ប្រមូលផ្តុំគ្នា​ចេញ​រូបរាង​ដូចជា​សសៃ​ប្រទាក់ក្រឡា​គ្នា​ពណ៌​លឿងទំ គឺ​ភាគច្រើន​ជា​អ៊ីដ្រូសែន, ពណ៌បៃតង់ គឺ​ស៊ុលផួរ ចំណែក​ពណ៌ខៀវ និង​ពណ៌ក្រហម​ដែល​នៅ​ជាយខាងក្រៅ គឺ​អុកស៊ីសែន។ នៅ​ក្នុង​រូបភាព​ផ្សេងទៀត តេឡេស្កុប​ហឺបល​ក៏​បាន​ឆ្លុះឃើញ​ផងដែរអំពី​ចលនា​របស់ Pulsar ដែល​ចេញ​ពី​ផ្កាយ​ណឺត្រុង នៅ​ចំកណ្តាល Crab Nebula។ ​ផ្កាយណឺត្រុង ដែល​បន្សល់​ទុក​ពី​ស្នូល​របស់​ផ្កាយ​ដើម ក្រោយ​ផ្ទុះ​ទៅ​ជា​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា... ជាផ្កាយ​ដែល​ផ្សំឡើង​ដោយ​ណឺត្រុង​សុទ្ធសាធ ដោយ​មានទំហំ​​តូច​ត្រឹម​​ប្រហែល​នឹង​​​ទីក្រុង​មួយ​តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ ក៏ប៉ុន្តែ មាន​ម៉ាស់​ស្មើ​នឹង​ព្រះអាទិត្យ​របស់​យើង ហើយ​​មានចលនា​វិល​ជុំវិញខ្លួនឯង​យ៉ាងលឿន រហូតដល់​ទៅ​ប្រមាណ​ជា ៣០ជុំឯណោះ ក្នុង​មួយវិនាទី។ Crab Nebula នេះ គឺ​ជា​អ្វីដែល​បន្សល់ទុក​ពី​បាតុភូតស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា ដែល​យើងសង្កេតឃើញ កាល​ពី​ជិត​១០០០ឆ្នាំមុន ក៏ប៉ុន្តែ តាមការពិត​ទៅការផ្ទុះស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា​នេះ បាន​កើតឡើង​តាំង​ពី ៧៥០០ឆ្នាំមុនមកម៉្លេះ។ ដោយសារ​តែ​ Crab Nebula នេះ ស្ថិត​នៅ​ចម្ងាយ​រហូត​ដល់​ទៅ​ ៦៥០០ឆ្នាំ​ពន្លឺ​ពី​ភពផែនដី ដូច្នេះ ​ចាប់ពី​ពេល​ផ្ទុះ​ទៅជា​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា ពន្លឺ​ស៊ូពើណូវ៉ា​នេះ​ត្រូវ​ចំណាយ​ពេល ៦៥០០ឆ្នាំ ទើប​អាច​ធ្វើ​ដំណើរ​មក​ដល់​ផែនដី ហើយ​អាច​ឲ្យ​​តារាវិទូ​ចិន​អាច​​សង្កេតឃើញ​បាន កាល​ពី​ជិត​១០០០​ឆ្នាំមុន៕

Faith Community Bible Church
Gifts of Grace

Faith Community Bible Church

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 34:38


Slideshow for this message is available Introduction James 1 We are in the book of James and he opens his book by talking about trials. **And he dives straight in without any padding. He doesn't sugar coat a thing. He starts his book by saying, “Life stinks. Life is hard.” And if anyone in the room doubts this: Talk to any police officer, Talk to a hospital worker. Talk to a social worker. Just talk to anyone in the room. Life is full of trials - full of them. James says, ok fine, what are you going to do about it? The choice is yours. Will it be a test that refines you or will it be a temptation that breaks you. Trials are just the heat. The difficulties of life come down on some people, and they seem to make them soft and wise and tender. The same troubles come down on other people, and they seem to make them broken and bitter and brittle. What's the difference? The difference James says, is this: one is deceived and the other is not. Last week James warned us not to be deceived when temptation comes upon us or when difficult things come upon us. Make sure you are looking at trials and temptations through the proper lens. When trials come upon us we are vulnerable to deception. We are all of the sudden open to start believing things that are quite absurd. In fact, if you just zoom out and think about it, what we end up believing when we sin is insanity to the max. It's actually madness. It's ludicrous and even commical. When trials come here's what we are deceived into believing: Sin is Good and God is Evil. On the surface, that's laughable. There's so much evidence against that. That's like trying to convince me that the earth is flat. Sure you can make an argument but the evidence to the contrary is just overwhelming. And yet somehow the whispers over time becoming convincing. There this voice in your head: You know the reason that God's not healing you is because he doesn't really care. That's why he's withholding. You know he could fix your marriage or kids. But he's just messing with you. He likes to watch you squirm. You know the reason God makes all these rules is he's trying to limit your joy. You know that right. He's a cosmic kill-joy. He's basically against having fun. In the midst of trial or strong temptation that all seems believable. There is some incredibly skillful deception going on. Now Christians are all about the ministry of unraveling that deception. We are about the ministry of pulling the bait off Satan's hooks so that his schemes become obvious. No, it's not that sin is good and God is evil. Actually, Sin is evil and God is good. It's no more complicated than that. We've just hacked the datacenter and decoded Satan's diabolic master plan to undo the human race. It's so obvious. Last week we really focused on unravelling the deception of that first point. Sin is evil. It's really evil. It's far more evil than we suspect. It leads to death. The unapologetic message from last week was this: We need to be freaked out of sin because it will kill you. But we ended last week by really encouraging you to look forward to this week because understanding the danger of sin is only half the equation. Yes, you can be protected against temptation by being convinced of the DANGER of SIN but even more powerful is being convinced of the unchanging goodness of God. Yes Sin is Evil AND Yes, God is Good. So let's look again at our passage. We began today by noting that verse 16 serves as a summary of last week. “Do not be deceived.” Sin is evil. But it also serves as an introduction to this week. Do not be deceived. God is good. Notice how James makes this point. If we want to be holy, if we want to be free of the death-clutches of sin, ultimately we have to be absolutely convinced, all of the time, God is really, really, beautifully good. Now James builds his argument with a foundation maybe you don't even realize you knew you needed. Let's ask this question, “If we are suffering, is it good news that God is good?” Yes, of course that's good but it's not good enough. We need more for it it be good news. Because we could imagine a god who is really, really good, but also really weak. A god like that would want to help you but you would lack the power to do so. So what you need is someone both good and powerful. And that's what is claimed. But here's the problem. In the face of suffering, the claim that God is good and powerful is not very believable, if he's so good and powerful, then why doesn't he save me? What do you need in that moment of doubt. You need proof. God knows that and gives it to us. So here's how the text is going to unravel today. We have the Claim that God is Good. We have the Claim that God is Powerful. We have the Proof that He's both. Let's start with the claim that he's good. Every GOOD gift and every perfect gift is from above. Now what he does here - and it's very masterful how he does it - is that he gets at the Goodness of God through the gifts of God. C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity has a chapter on hope and he references this really common experience that we all have. There are moments in life when you run across something truly beautiful, truly amazing, truly wonderful. And your heart leaps at it. It could be a beautiful piece of music, a masterful piece of art, a beautiful person, a piece of land on the beach or mountains. And you just think, man if I could just have that I'd be so happy. That's what I want. That's what my soul has been searching for. And maybe you go on a mission to get it. And you build that home or you go on that vacation or you marry that person or you get that job or buy that piece of music. Well, the inevitable experience is that there's a fading of the euphoria. It fulfills but it's brightness fades. It has some power to satisfy but not enough to ultimately do so. In fact the more you try to make it satisfy, the less it does. God's gifts are are truly beautiful, but the closer you try to draw them into your heart, the more you try to make them make you happy, the less beautiful they become and the more you realize that your asking something of them they were never intended to do. What James is saying in this passage is that we were made to seek out goodness. Our antenna are tuned to that frequency and all of life we seek and hunt and search for it. We long for beauty. Our hearts crave it. And all these gifts are beautiful but they are not really the SOURCE of beauty. They are good but are not SOURCES of goodness. Goodness does not flow out of these things. That's why they cannot ultimately satisfy. They are merely reflections. Every good and perfect gift is from above. That's the source is above. The father who is from above is the source. Getting this mixed up is like somehow confusing the sun and the moon. The moon is always shifting. The moon is always changing its light because it doesn't have any light in and of itself. It's just reflecting the light of something else. Sometimes the moon is so bright a flashlight is totally unnecessary it's shining so brightly. Other times you can't see your hand in front of your face. It's always changing. It's shifting shadows. But the sun. It's got power. It's got blinding light. It's an eye watering nuclear reaction of almost infinite energy. In the same way, the music, the campfire, the fishing or hunting trip, the romance, the seashore - these are all really good gifts. They really are good, but they actually don't possess goodness itself. They are reflections of goodness. Of course they don't satisfy. They are just reflecting the source. You have to look to the source. He's not reflecting goodness. He is goodness. He's not reflecting beauty, He is beauty. He's not reflecting love, he is love. He's the source of all these things. And James is saying, "Listen, I know what you want is goodness. Look at the gifts, look at the shifting shadow; now follow that beam clear back to the creator God, the actual source of Goodness. That goodness does not fade. That goodness is ultimately fulfilling. That goodness lasts forever. It's the difference between smelling ice cream and tasting it. It's categorically different. When we deal with the creator God, we are dealing with source material - with goodness itself. We get this confused, don't we. One of the great blessings of trials is that it forces our our eyes off the gifts and redirects us to the giver of the gift. In fact, sometimes our trials are trials simply because we have our eyes on the wrong prize. When we loose the money, or the relationship doesn't turn out how we hoped or the kids don't turn out as we hoped or the job doesn't satisfy like we hoped, we call it a trial. That's not a trial. That's a mercy. God is his mercy is trying to get our eyes off the shadows. *He's trying to say, “The longing of your heart for beauty and goodness is right.* You want light, and your puny little flashlight burnt out and your moping around in a cave. Lift your eyes. Your vision is too low. Look to the heavens! Look to the bright and morning star.” Look to the source, not the reflection. Don't you want the real thing? Consider how different God's goodness is, to say, human goodness. God is spontaneously good. And he overflows with generosity. It's a disposition unlike anything we know. It's a disposition without any mercenary motive. Not giving without reciprocation. Consistently goes beyond what the recipients deserve. This week we were reading in our pastoral meeting the charge to elders in 1 Peter 5 to serve willingly and not under compulsion. There's also verses in 2 Corinthians 9 that talks about giving without compulsion. We have to be told NOT to serve begrudgingly or to give begrudgingly because overflowing generosity is not in our character. It's always God's character. Goodness just flows out of God. And that is such an encouragement. Apply that in your relationship with God. Because even the best of earthly fathers needs to be approached at the right moment. I want to go out with my friends, but dad's in a bad mood. As children, we read the signs. We see the body language. I don't think right now is the right time to ask him about this. Do you realize there is no wrong time to approach God? You can't catch him in an off moment. You can't get him in a bad mood. He's good and he's always good. That disposition of goodness doesn't change. He's just the blazing sun, outputting unchanging goodness. That's who God is. That's beauty. We don't want to just see that. We want to be that. We want to enter into that. James says when you get a good gift, you have to realize that there's something behind it, namely, the Father of lights. He's the perfect light. He's the ultimate light. He's an unchanging light. He's an unshifting light. He's the sun, not the moon. So the first claim is that God is good. The second claim is that he is powerful. Now where do we see this in the text? Well, we are told that these good gifts are coming down from the father of lights or as some translations have it, The father of the heavenly lights. Return to verses Now what he's doing there is linking the goodness of God with the power of God. It's so causal the way he does it. There's this little prepositional phrase that modifies Father. What kind of father do we have? The father lof lights. It's just casually tossed in there as a side comment but its effect is tremendous. He's saying all good gifts are served up from the hand of God. And who is this God? Answer: the same God who possess the power to create all the stars of the heaven with a single word. Therefore his ability to infuse goodness into the world, and into your life in particular, is at least equal to the power required to create all the heavenly lights. Consider for a moment the power of which we are speaking. How much power is required to create the heavenly lights? Well, let's think. The most obvious heavenly light of course is the sun. Here's a time lapse video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Now I just love this video. That, my friends is a powerful object. And to get a sense of just how powerful, consider this. The sun is 93 million miles away from earth. So if the sun were a basketball the earth would be a tiny bead orbiting this basketball at a distance of about 75 feet away. The back of the sanctuary is almost exactly 75 feet from here. So here's this sun emitting energy in all directions, only a very small percentage of the energy of the sun hits the earth that tiny bead on the back wall. Like very small: 0000287% So its hard to image just how much energy its putting out in all directions. Here's one way to put it in perspective. Get in your mind the energy consumption of all the cities in the entire world that is consumed in a calendar year. All the heaters, all the factories, all the cars driving around, trains, planes flying, giant cargo ships. In one second the sun outputs about a million years worth of energy consumed by planet earth. So James is saying you see that big light up there and all that power that comes streaming out of that thing… that is supposed to make you appreciate just how powerful God really is. But notice that the text says, Every good and perfect gift is from above coming down from the Father of LIGHT(S) - plural. Our sun is one star among many. When you look out at the night sky on a perfect night you see about 3000 stars but you also see that bright band of light we call the milky way, it almost looks like a cloud. Here's a nice time lapse of that. That's our galaxy. And of course we are in it. To visualize why our night sky appears to us the way it does, imagine camping in the woods and instead of starts, we have trees. The trees right next to you are all around you and appear far apart. The trees on the neighboring mountain are closely packed together. But if you were to zoom out from your camp spot you could see the trees next to you merge with the entire forest, it would be laid out like a green carpet. The same thing is happening when we look at the galaxy. It's hard for us to conceptualize the forest of stars that we are in. This is a computer generated video to help you visualize it: All the stars we see with our naked eye in our night sky are like the trees around us when we are camping. But if we could zoom out, we would then be able to see the forest for the trees. We would then be able to see the entire milky way galaxy. Our sun is just one of these stars. Now being in it gives us an advantage because can photograph our own galaxy up close. Here's an actual photograph. You can go to ESO.org website and zoom in and out of this photo and if This photograph is a very small slice of the milky way galaxy. It's a 9 gigapixel image and has 85 million stars in it. This is one photograph. Every single one of those points of light is a star. Now keep in mind that the milky way galaxy has something like 200-400 billion stars. So that means that this photograph containing 85 million stars is 1/2000's of the stars that make up our milky way. Just so you can visualize this: Here's 2000 dots. So those 85 million stars are 1/2000th of the stars in our one galaxy. Now, we live in a very, very, very privileged age to appreciate the wonders of what our milky way galaxy contains. I woke up my wife this last Christmas at 5:00am. And it wasn't to get ready for Christmas. I wanted to watch this: This is the launch of the Arian 5 rocket which was carrying the 10 billion dollar James Webb telescope a million miles into space to intersect lagrange 2 equilibrium point which is a special place that allows satellites to make small orbits in the shadow of the earth which is a perfect place to put a telescope. Now I was so excited because I had literally been following this project for the past 20 years. And just this July, the first images from this telescope started pouring in. So here we are zooming into our milky way galaxy. This is that previous photo, but we are zooming into a very, very, very tiny portion of the night sky. And if we zoom in far enough, we see the crab nebula: This is a really interesting formation because this is actually the remains of a star that was observed to explode in 1054 A.D. It was so bright it could be seen with the naked in broad daylight. The center of the Crab Nebula contains a rapidly rotating neutron star – or pulsar – that is apparently pumping enormous amounts of energy into the nebula in the form of high-energy particles and magnetic fields at the rate of 100,000 suns. Check out this. This particular formation is known as the cosmic cliffs. Just beauty beyond anything I could imagine. The tall peaks here are about 7 light years high. Now keep in mind these photographs are just within our galaxy. This one is about 7600 light years away. All of this contained within our one galaxy. But our galaxy is not alone. There are not just hundreds of galaxies, not just hundreds, not thousands, not just millions, not just billions but recent estimates say there are upwards of 2 trillion galaxies in the known universe. NASA has a project called the SLOAN digital sky survey and the attempt of this project is to create a 3D map of as many galaxies and they can possibly do. And they've shared that data with the public. So if you could travel through space and tour a small portion of the galaxies that we can see from earth here's what it would look like. Keep in mind this is a scale model and every point of light is not a star but a galaxy. Each galaxy you see here contains billions of stars. Totalling all that up. Trillions and Trillions and Trillions of star, each with planets orbiting, each with their own unique moons. Not a single human will visit, not a single human will document or observe 99.999999999 percent of them. The vastness. Picture our first slide, with the sun, that one star pumping out a million years worth of earth's energy in one second. And we have billions upon trillion upon quadrillions of these in our universe. It's a number so large that no matter how hard you try (and I've tried), your mind cannot contain it. Here's probably the best way to barely try. Here's the best way for me to attempt it: Picture in your mind sand. Let me help you do that. Try to get in your mind a number that approximates the amount of sand on these dunes. And not just this sand, but all the sand in the world. All the sand in every city, every country, every beach, every sand dune from breneau sand dunes here in Idaho to the great Sahara Dessert. Sand from every river, from every island in the pacific, on every continent. All of it. Scientist estimate that the earth has 7.5 sextillion grains of sand. That's a lot of sand. Now if you want to conservatively estimate how many stars there on the universe then you'd have to say that every single grain of sand on planet earth represents not one but 10,000 stars just like our sun. Can you conceive of that? Now we've toured the universe in our mind. We've tried to count the stars and given up. Our brains are fried. It's amazing. Now as magnificent as these stars are, we must remember that these stars are just shadows. These are not the light. These merely reflect the light. These lights point us to the father of lights. The great giver of every light. The creator of light itself. Now back out. We've tried to paint a picture for ourselves of the POWER of the God we serve. We've tried to paint a picture of his POWER. And why? To unravel any notion we might have that God is somehow like us. To unravel any notion we might have that he is limited and because of that limitation is unable to help us. In other words, “Do not be deceived, my beloved.” Given what we just surveyed, do you think that God, is in any way limited by power? Do you think mentally, he's gotten himself into a bind and doesn't know the way out? Do you think he gets tired? Do you think he looses his ability to concentrate? Do you think he tires of handling so many needs? Do you think that whatever you ask of him in his ears sounds like a hard task? That it feels somehow emotionally draining? That he has to muster up some energy to listen to your whining? I'd love to help you, but I have to put up some boundaries here because you just keep on asking and there are so many needs in the world and I'm just going to get worn down if I'm not careful. Of course not. He is GOOD. AND He is ABLE. Those sextillion stars we surveyed are MERELY the MIDST that he EXHALES from his lungs on a COLD NIGHT. That's why Isaiah when speaking of the power of the Lord almost shames us into even remotely drawing comparisons between our power and His. Isaiah is speaking of the power of God to accomplish his purposes in all things. Isaiah 40 I certainly won't compare him to me. Forgive me Lord for doing so. Is it that God lacks power that he cannot immediately come rushing in and save you from your problems. Let's just nail this down once and for all. No. God has power. That's why he points to the stars. Of course the father of lights has power to save. Can we just worship God right now with our proclamation. God you are amazing. So we have two claims. There's the claim that he's good and the claim that he's powerful. But in trials it may not appear that God is what he claims. So we need proof of these truths and specifically of the claim that he is good. And here it is. What is that crowing act of God's powerful goodness. Here's the answer from the text: spiritual new birth. The greatest proof of God's powerful goodness, the greatest proof of his powerful love for you is that he has saved you. Return to verses “Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” That's God's good and perfect, powerful loving initiative toward you. He chose to give us birth. Let's think about why that is such powerful proof. Hands up if anyone in the room who wrote an email or maybe for some of us older generation, wrote a letter and asked your parents if you could be born. Everything that happened in physical birth, happens without any consent or conscious awareness of the child. And so it is with our spiritual birth. James points out that our spiritual birth is not something that we prompted God to do. The new birth is something God chose unpressured by our helplessness, unimpressed by our goodness, uncoerced by social pressure. He acted in his accordance with his free, uncompelled, sovereign goodness. Now why is that such good news for us? HERE IT IS: Because this spiritual starts a spiritual chain reaction, a domino of forces, it's the first link in long golden chain which demonstrates God's unstoppable LOVE and GOODNESS that follows and pursues and relentlessly tracks you down for the rest of you life. Listen to how Romans 8 says it. Romans 8 also acknowledges the difficulty of life. It acknowledges trials. But it pulls us onto this perch and asks us to get some perspective. Romans 8 So if you are suffering, if you are going through some very difficult trial then Paul wants to give you some encouragement. So just like James the claim is that God is good and powerful. Now are you just supposed to believe those claims at face value? Praise the Lord if you do. But if you are struggling, he gives you help. You need some proof that God is in fact good when it seems like he's not? No problem. Here's how Paul says it. Notice this domino effect. Notice this golden chain of connected ideas. It's starts long before we were born, before the foundations of the earth. We were predestined. And that sets off a chain of events. Justification. Glorification. And there's a conclusion. Listen to the argument here. It's so powerful. He says, do not be deceived. To question my goodness, to question my love, because of a current trial or difficulty is the most irrational of all possible conclusions. God says to us. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. Please just open your eyes and review the facts. Let me just remind you that I loved you before you even had conscious existence. I set my love upon you before you even breathed a word or had a single thought. Like a child, I took you when you were helpless. I bathed you, clothed you, cared for you, I nursed you into existence in every possible way. At any moment if I would have removed my sustaining care for you, you would have perished, but I loved you. I set my affections upon you. I breathed life into you and you were born. And I brought you forth by the word of my power, the same power that spun all the galaxies into existence. And you grew and became beautiful. I wanted a relationship with you. I care deeply for you and so I put up some rules to protect you from the sin that leads to death. But you rebelled against me, you flaunted my rules. And even though you hurt me so badly, I pursued you. And yet you bucked and resisted and you ignored my commands. And I pursued you. And I asked you trust me and you sinned against me and I pursued you. The reason I was so concerned and the reason I asked you to not do all those things is because the wages of sin is death. And I didn't want you to die. But you had the sentence of death upon you. And so I sent my son, my one and only son, to the earth to take on flesh. And I sent him to the cross. And I put your robes of sin on him, and his robes of righteousness on you. And I poured out my wrath upon my son, that was reserved for you. And I did that to spare you so that you could live. And I've made a way so that you can live eternally with me in heaven. And I have gone to prepare a place for you that where I am you may also be And I cannot wait for you to see me for when you do you shall be like me. and all those trials that seem so hard and difficult, don't worry because I will wipe away every tear from your face and there will be no more morning only laughing and dancing. All that is true. Given all of that, do you think that a few small and momentary afflictions, a few trials, a few rules you don't understand are evidence that God is not good? Do not be deceived. God is Good. Do not be deceived. God is Powerful. Dl not be deceived. God has Saved you. So whatever is going on in your life, cling to these things. Run to them. If you are tempted to sin. If you are tempted to question God. Remember two things from James: Sin is really bad - it leads to death. God is powerfully good. - He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die for you. - that leads to life. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. No matter what it feels like, those two things are true.

Handkerchief Dynasty
200 - The Cosmic Consequences of the Battle of Alberta???

Handkerchief Dynasty

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2022 21:33


For our 200th episode, we have a special cosmic caller - the Crab Nebula.

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Prospective Study on Observations of γ-Ray Sources in the Galaxy Using the HADAR Experiment

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2022 0:43


Prospective Study on Observations of γ-Ray Sources in the Galaxy Using the HADAR Experiment by Xiangli Qian et al. on Sunday 25 September The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation (HADAR) experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique. It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers through a large aperture water-lens system for observing very-high-energy-rays and cosmic rays. With the advantages of a large field-of-view (FOV) and low energy threshold, the HADAR experiment operates in a large-scale sky scanning mode to observe galactic sources. This study presents the prospects of using the HADAR experiment for the sky survey of TeV {gamma}-ray sources from TeVCat and provids a one-year survey of statistical significance. Results from the simulation show that a total of 23 galactic point sources, including five supernova remnant sources and superbubbles, four pulsar wind nebula sources, and 14 unidentified sources, were detected in the HADAR FOV with a significance greater than 5 standard deviations ({sigma}). The statistical significance for the Crab Nebula during one year of operation reached 346.0 {sigma} and the one-year integral sensitivity of HADAR above 1TeV was ~1.3%-2.4% of the flux from the Crab Nebula. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11458v1

Mesa Verde Voices
Season 5 Episode 4: Star Watching

Mesa Verde Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2022 27:58


There are as many names for the stars, planets, and constellations as there are languages and cultures on Earth. In this episode we hear some of the Navajo/Diné and Zuni names for some of the most prominent stars and constellations, and we hear about the 1054 Supernova that resulted in the Crab Nebula which can still be seen via telescope today. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For more information on all the topics discussed in this episode, visit www.mesaverdevoices.org. For more information about International Dark Sky Parks, visit www.darksky.org. Mesa Verde Voices is produced by KSJD Community Radio Project in Cortez, Colorado, in collaboration with Mesa Verde National Park and the Mesa Verde Association. This season is made possible through a grant from Colorado Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the American Rescue Plan of 2021.

When the Curves Line Up
2022, October 13: Arcturus near Heliacal Rising, Mars, Crab Nebula

When the Curves Line Up

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 6:27


October 13, 2022: Topaz Arcturus nears its heliacal rising. Find it by following the Big Dipper's handle. Mars appears near the Crab Nebula through a binocular. This episode is also available as a blog post: 2022, October 13: Arcturus near Heliacal Rising, Mars, Crab Nebula --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-l-hunt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-l-hunt/support

Astro arXiv | all categories
A PeVatron Candidate: Modelling the Boomerang Nebula in X-ray Band

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 0:56


A PeVatron Candidate: Modelling the Boomerang Nebula in X-ray Band by Xuan-Han Liang et al. on Thursday 08 September Pulsar wind nebula (PWN) Boomerang and the associated supernova remnant (SNR) G106.3+2.7 are among candidates for the ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray counterparts published by LHAASO. Although the centroid of the extended source, LHAASO J2226+6057, deviates from the pulsar's position by about $0.3^circ$, the source partially covers the PWN. Therefore, we cannot totally exclude the possibility that a part of the UHE emission comes from the PWN. Previous studies mainly focus on whether the SNR is a PeVatron, while neglecting the energetic PWN. Here, we explore the possibility of the Boomerang Nebula being a PeVatron candidate by studying its X-ray radiation. By modelling the diffusion of relativistic electrons injected in the PWN, we fit the radial profiles of the X-ray surface brightness and the photon index. The solution with a magnetic field $B=140mu$G can well reproduce the observed profiles and implies a severe suppression of IC scattering of electrons. Therefore, a proton component need be introduced to account for the UHE emission, in light of recent LHAASO's measurement on Crab Nebula, if future observations reveal part of the UHE emission originating from the PWN. In this sense, Boomerang Nebula would be a hadronic PeVatron. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03809v1

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Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 0:48


Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope by Leslie Taylor. on Wednesday 07 September The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times faster than current arrays, enabling valuable multiwavelength and multimessenger observations. The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a candidate for the Medium-Sized telescope in CTA. A prototype SCT (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona USA. Its camera is currently partially instrumented with 1600 pixels (2.7 degree FOV). The small plate scale of the optical system allows densely packed silicon photomultipliers to be used, which combined with high-density trigger and waveform readout electronics enable the high-resolution camera. The camera's electronics are capable of imaging air shower development with waveform readout with nanosecond resolution. The pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout that year. The first campaign of observations with the pSCT was conducted in January and February of 2020. Gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula was detected with a significance of 8.6 sigma. An upgrade to the pSCT camera is currently underway. The upgrade will fully populate the focal plane, increasing the field of view to 8 degrees diameter, and lower the front-end electronics noise, enabling a lower trigger threshold and improved reconstruction and background rejection. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02680v1

Astro arXiv | all categories
Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

Astro arXiv | all categories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2022 0:54


Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope by Leslie Taylor. on Wednesday 07 September The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times faster than current arrays, enabling valuable multiwavelength and multimessenger observations. The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a candidate for the Medium-Sized telescope in CTA. A prototype SCT (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona USA. Its camera is currently partially instrumented with 1600 pixels (2.7 degree FOV). The small plate scale of the optical system allows densely packed silicon photomultipliers to be used, which combined with high-density trigger and waveform readout electronics enable the high-resolution camera. The camera's electronics are capable of imaging air shower development with waveform readout with nanosecond resolution. The pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout that year. The first campaign of observations with the pSCT was conducted in January and February of 2020. Gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula was detected with a significance of 8.6 sigma. An upgrade to the pSCT camera is currently underway. The upgrade will fully populate the focal plane, increasing the field of view to 8 degrees diameter, and lower the front-end electronics noise, enabling a lower trigger threshold and improved reconstruction and background rejection. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02680v1

Le Livre du Prophète Kacou Philippe Version audio)
Kacou 145: Islam kana Crab Nebula

Le Livre du Prophète Kacou Philippe Version audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2022 55:24


Kacou 145: Islam kana Crab Nebula by Prophète Kacou Philippe

When the Curves Line Up
2022, September 29: Crabby Mars, Scorpion Moon

When the Curves Line Up

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2022 6:19


September 29, 2022: Mars approaches the Crab Nebula before daybreak. The crescent moon is with the classic Scorpion after sundown. This episode is also available as a blog post: 2022, September 29: Crabby Mars, Scorpion Moon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-l-hunt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-l-hunt/support

Medicine for the Resistance
A colonized sky

Medicine for the Resistance

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 62:02


Patty Krawec  so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing.Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Newfoundland. That's where my family's from the west coast of the island. Got my PhD at the University of Toronto in astrophysics, did some research back as a contract backdating astronomer, working in the Department of Astronomy, just next door to AW Peet. And I've been really interested in trying to bridge a lot of initiatives in astronomy that we don't really talk about that much, which is Indigenous knowledges. If I were to show you a textbook, you know, like a 500 page tome of astronomy knowledge from cosmology, the exoplanet, there'd be two pages on Indigenous knowledges. And we'd be sharing those two pages with Stonehenge, and New Grange in Ireland. And they'll be talking about perhaps the Mayan Astronomy, or maybe Hawai’ian navigators. And it will be spoken about as if we're past tense, as if Indigenous people don't exist. And then it will be like, “now on to the real science.” And, you know, a few years ago, I got to attend a national meeting of Canadian astronomers, and a Cree astronomer educator, Wilfer Buck, was presenting, and he gave a talk to the audience, discussing all these Cree stories, beautiful Cree stories. The Bear constellation with three dog constellation. And us seeing all this knowledge that we don't talk about in academic spaces. And I'm just sitting there wondering like, WTF is our knowledge? Where's Indigenous wisdom, Mi’kmaq knowledge? Where are the constellations? Why don't we talk about that? And so this sort of became of this giant rabbit hole that I've been going through trying to find different knowledges and Indigenous methodologies, and trying to create new space in academic astronomy for more Indigenous knowledges, though, granted, that mostly focused on the North American Carolinian peoples. There's just too much out there to try to do everything. And so hopefully now in the fall, we'll be launching our new course on Indigenous astronomy, that will be a senior level course talking of issues around colonization and astronomy, whether that's dealing with telescopes on Earth or going out to Mars, talking about knowledges, and then Indigenous methodologies. You know, how would an Indigenous, how would Indigenous peoples think about the concepts like the Drake Equation. Like we asked the question, how many advanced civilizations are there? And, noting that “advanced civilization” has its own problems with terminology, are there in our galaxy? And, you know, some dude named Frank Drake in the 1960s came up this whole way of kind of thinking about this through an equation. And all the assumptions presently require things like, what's intelligent life? How does life form? What is a civilization? And if we just step back and think back to, you know, how different Indigenous communities would think about these things and what does that mean? And there are ways of going through these kind of thought processes. One of the simple aspects of the Drake Equation is, you know, how long civilizations sort of last that can communicate. And Frank Drake, you know, was doing this during the Cold War. So, you know, the biggest fear was nuclear bombs. So he was suggesting maybe a century to 1000 years that's the length societies exist Now that we're in the era of climate change, probably, the same numbers apply. But, you know, I remember when seeing this meme a few years ago of “Canada- 150;  Mi’kmaq- 13,000.” Patty Krawec: Right. Hilding Neilson: So you know, if Western civilization’s got about a century, perhaps Indigenous civilizations have 10s of 1000s of years.Hilding Neilson And you know, that's tens of thousands of  years longer to exist. It means many more Indigenous type, or Indigenous life possibilities of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. So just thinking from an Indigenous perspective, using–and trying not to really be pan-Indigenous–But, you know, common methodologies that you can have so many more civilizations in our galaxy, if you think about it, through those lenses of different Indigenous nations relative to traditional western science. And we could probably play through this exercise through different elements in astronomy and physics. And I think this sort of helped create this critical lens, again, around how we talk about astronomy and astrophysics, because it's become so Eurocentric, so westernized, so much in this narrative of “Space Cowboys, Colonizing Mars, Planting a flag, Sending messages out to other worlds,” that were really embodied within the same colonial narrative in the last four or five centuries, that I think we're due now to actually start thinking about it from a from a broader context.Patty Krawec  There were two things that Chanda talked about, and I kind of tweeted about it. Because one of the things that she mentions, is Euclidean, she's talking about Euclidean geometry, just you know, to bring it way down to super simple stuff. For all the non-physicists in the room. What she's talking about is that we're thinking in terms of, you know, Euclidean geometry is, you know, squares have a certain number of angles inside them. And triangles always add up to 180. But then, when we map that onto a curved space, that doesn't work, the triangle no longer adds up to 180. And yet, we live on a curved planet, underneath a curved sky. And we think in terms of these, you know, of these flat, you know, these these flat geometries, which got me thinking, you know, which got me thinking about the way colonisation worked, carving up the countries into these little squares to give away chunks of land. And they're carving up spaces that are curved, you know, they're carving rivers in half, and hills in half. And, you know, just because the lines match up, and they're mapping this grid and starting this, this disconnection, and we do that to the sky, we kind of chart it off in ways that aren't super helpful. I mean, they're helpful if you want to lay claim to it, if you want to, like you say, plant your flag in it, then it's very helpful to map it out that way. But in terms of relationship, in terms of understanding how things connect together, is not super helpful. So how does, I guess, how does the night sky change? When we look at it through Indigenous eyes?Hilding Neilson I think if we look at the night sky, and start the traditional Greco Roman, we have all these constellations defined by this International Astronomical Union. So ADA constellations. And this was done on, around the beginning of the 1900s, by a British guy, a German guy and a French guy. So it’s a bad joke already. And when this happened, they kind of, like you said, they carved it up. They used Greek stories, they made up and borrowed some constellations from different parts, particularly for the southern hemisphere, where they completely imported their own belief system into those constellations. But in doing so, they also sanitized a lot of the Greek and Roman stories. You know, there are Greek and Roman stories for Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and Cepheus, and all these different constellations. But when we did this mapping, which was solely for convenience for people with telescopes, who want to do the observing and had to know where to look, it became, turned into nothing. You know, it took all the, it took our connections away from it, from a European,in the European sense. And when that became transplanted over here, you know, the Mi’kmaq, where there's Ursa Major, the Mi’kmaq also have a bear constellation. The Cree have a Bear constellation. Lots of cultures in the world have bear constellations around what we would call the Big Dipper today. Patty Krawec: Really, we all looked at that and saw a bear.Hilding Neilson Many, yeah, to many, it's a bear and hunters.Patty Krawec: That’s neat.Hilding Neilson: A bear in a tail, sometimes bear and cubs. There's a lot of commonalities like that. And, but the problem is that this was designed solely to erase Indigenous cultures and Indigenous knowledges. And for me, like the Mi’kmaq, for many Indigenous peoples in what is today Canada, you know, what is in the sky, it's kind of a reflection of the land below; your knowledge is localized. And so if we basically say that constellation is Ursa Major, and your knowledge doesn't count, that's all about removing us, removing us from the land, just as much of that–maybe not as much as actually literally removing us from the land, but it's, it's part of that disconnection. And, and so that erasure is a part of the problem. And I think that, you know, for my own self, like, I didn't get to grow up within a community, you know, most people, most Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland, we were kind of away from most of the communities. Just where Newfoundland was. And in that respect, you know, how do we kind of understand those constellations? Yeah, I only know one or two Mi’kmaq constellations. I don't think I can name all 88 European constellations, but I can name a lot of them. I could probably name a few of the Cree constellations, thanks to, you know, listening to Wilfred Buck and reading his stories. And so trying to reclaim that knowledge is also kind of important, because that's part of our connection to the land. And you know, what, the constellations I see here, where I'm sitting in Toronto, or Tkaronto, are different than if I go to the far north, or if I go to the southern hemisphere. You know, if I go to Australia, the moon looks completely different. You know, for someone coming from Australia to here, the moon looks like it's upside down, and vice versa. And so the stories change, and our connection and our relations to these, to these special objects change. And that's, that's one of the unfortunate repercussions of the legacy of colonization with respect to the night sky. And then another thing, I think, relates to that, not just the constellations, but it's the light pollution.Patty Krawec Oh, yes.Hilding Neilson: So, you know, I like to joke, you know, I live in Toronto, if I step out onto my balcony, I might see five stars in the night. One of them might be on CBC TV. You know, they, they're just so few you can see. So you just lose that connection in this void of installedl light? Patty Krawec: Yes. Hilding Neilson: And how do we, you know, so I can't see the Milky Way, or what in Mi’kmaq would be a spirit road, which is also a spirit path for many other cultures, you know? So how do you connect to the ancestors, in that respect. all these things..Patty Krawec  Really, that's actually a really interesting point. Then eventually, I'll let Kerry get a word in edgewise. She's just here smiling and nodding and taking it all in the way she does. Because that's something like when I think about language, right, there's something residential schools took from us. And then if, you know, so if, in your cosmology, you believe that you need to speak the language, or the spirits won't understand what you're saying, how do you show gratitude? They can't hear you. And then if you die, and you don't speak the language, then the spirits won't recognize you. And so removing language in that way, you know, kind of cuts us off. And then as you were talking about not being able to see the night sky, the, you know, the stars, are our ancestors, and after reading Chanda’s book, they are in a very real sense. You know, really, you know, they really are our ancestors, they really are our relatives, you know, in a very literal kind of way, you know, very material kind of way. But that light pollution, that also cuts us off from them, cuts us off from being able to see them in the way that our, you know, our ancestors walking this earth, saw and understood themselves to exist. You know, kind of beneath the sky in relation in relationship to the sky. So that's, yeah, she asks that in her book, like what would it take for our communities to see, to see the stars. What would it take? Reflecting on her own having to be driven outside of LA for a, you know, two, three hour drive to be able to see. What would it take for our children, you know, for our communities? What changes do we need to make for them to be able to see the night sky? We're going to the National Park in Nova Scotia this summer, and I found out that it's a dark sky preserve. So I had to rearrange our travel plans, so that we will be there during the new moon so well, there's no moon and there'll be no moon in the sky. I've never seen the stars like that. This is going to be amazing. Hilding Neilson: Yeah. Patty Krawec: And I'm 55. And I've, and there will be a whole night sky that I've never experienced, that my father had. My father did, from growing up in northern Ontario. Like, it's that, it's that tangible. It’s that recent. For a lot of us. Not for all of us, but for a lot of us.Hilding Neilson:Yeah, no, I mean, you know, I haven't been home to visit my family, since before the, these end times, COVID. And, you know, when going home and seeing the night sky and seeing what is essentially billions of lights over your head, it's completely transforming and different and far more reassuring. In my mind, it's like, it feels more like a blanket. And, you know, there's a greater universe, there's relations, you know, Western science did get it right when Carl Sagan said we are made, we are made of star stuff. Just like Cree people, we are star, you know, star people. You know, it's all true. And we have that connection when you're sitting in Toronto and just basking in that eerie orange glow. You know, I think we miss out on so much. And I think it also negatively impacts how we, how we understand things like astronomy, physics. Even from a Western sense, the great, the great astronomers in Europe or even in, you know, China and India. And, you know, if you only think about it from true, purely Indigenous North American sense, you know, everyone had that kind of perspective of the night sky, they could observe it. If they had the telescopes or lenses or instruments, they can see these things, learn to connect, and figure out how they want to connect with it. Whereas today, in Toronto, there's no way to connect to the night sky. Unless I want to use a computer and then log onto a planetarium software. That's sort of what I think that's sort of what our children have to deal with today is, it's easier to see the constellations through a computer software than it is to go outside.Patty Krawec  Well, and even what they see is filtered right? Like I've got that Stargaze, that star map app on my phone. So because I don't, I can recognize the Big Dipper on a good night. Really I’m not very good at it.Hilding Neilson: I’m honestly not much better.Patty Krawec: But you know, I hold up my phone, and I can find it, I can find it that way. And I kind of map out “Oh, that's where this is. And that's where that is.” But they're all…They're not the Cree constellations. You know, they're not…they're not the Igbo, or Yoruba constellations. They're not the Anishinaabe constellations; they're not the way our ancestors would have seen the night sky. They're organized and collated in a way, you know, in a European way. And all those disconnected stories.Hilding Neilson: 28:04Our constellations aren't static, either. I mean, sometimes, you know, in Mi’kmaq, we have the story of the bear, and the bear changes throughout the year. You know, in the winter, the bear is on his back, as a spirit, and in the summer, it’s running across the land. Some of the constellations have different meanings at different times of the year, whereas the European constellations are static, kind of locked in forever, or as forever as they want it to be. So, you know, I think we've kind of missed out on a lot of dynamic aspects of these constellations that come from the motions of the Earth around the Sun, or the rotation of the earth. And motions of sky around us. And so so there's a lot, I think, a lot more depth in eliminating Indigenous constellations that we don't see. Relative to the European.Kerry Goring I, this conversation is… I'm loving so many points, there's so many things that you guys have touched that I've kind of been like, yeah, right. Um, what comes to mind for me when I think about it, is how, what you mentioned very early on, the idea of building of, of the erasure, you know, the way that when you were talking about that $500 500 Page textbook, that would just, you know, mention maybe two pages of the ancient ways or of Indigenous cultures showing up in those books. And what I find fascinating about that, is that we know that ancient cultures actually are, actually really had mapping and stargazing down to a science, down to a detailed finite way that they were building architecture and buildings to map and and offer that space up. And so it's kind of like a little tiny bit of a pet project, but I really enjoy talking about this from an ancient space. And what comes to mind for me is even these knowledges that weren't, or Europeans have suppressed or have not allowed, or colonization has suppressed and not allowed us to expand into. Take, for example, the Dogon tribe, which is an African tribe that existed and was kind of, was very much removed from, you know, civilization or from colonialism until the early 1900s. And I'm sure you can explain a lot more about this, but they knew about the constellation or the the star system, Sirius, sorry, they knew about Sirius B, was it? Was it that they found and could map Sirius B before Europeans even knew it existed, and they speak about it from their own ancient traditions, you know, it goes into a whole other realm, which I'm really into. But the idea that they were given the gifts from their, you know, from their gods that came down and told them how to map the star systems. And they had no modern day interactions to be able to have known that it existed, except for from some sort of knowledge that must have been ancient to them. And I think about when we talk about this, this idea of the erasure, how much of the truth of how the history of our planet, the history of our species, understanding the relationships that exists between us, the stars, space and the universe, are being affected, because we have been narrowed down and washed down into–what I love Patty, when you were talking about the idea of a two dimensional space–instead of knowing the curvature of our lands, and knowing the curvature of the skies? How much of us is not being met, or the truth of us is being so lost in those spaces?Hilding Neilson: Definitely true, I've heard the story of the Dogon, and to put it in context, Sirius A is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and Sirius B is what's called a white dwarf star, which is really small, compact, and is essentially the dead remainder of a star that has lost most of its material. And so today, you can only really see Sirius B with the telescope. Now, I don't really know much about the Dogon story, because, as I understand, it came through from French anthropologists, and as soon as I hear the word anthropologist, I tend to tune out. But yeah, that is very possible, and very likely, they did know better, because it might have been a star bright enough to the human eye 10,000 years ago, or 20,000 years ago, or even 100,000 years ago. And there are stories like that that come up all the time. You know, there are stories of a Paiute story from the West Coast about how the North Star came to be. And it is a son of the chief who's climbing a mountain, loves climbing mountains. And he finds this really hard peak to climb. And he keeps going around in circles, circles, and circles trying to find a way up the mountain but it’s so hard. Eventually he finds an opening and goes through the cave, and climbs away to the top. But unfortunately, when he gets to the top, there was a, there was an avalanche and the cave closed and he's trapped on the mountain. And that story can literally be interpreted as procession of the star. Because our what we call the North Star today wasn't always the North Star. It had to go around and around around. And so we see these long time domains. And that's one of the things that's very valuable in astronomy. There are stories in Anishinaabe, about heartberry stars, which are red supergiants, that change brightness. And the same very similar stories are seen in different Indigenous Australian nations about these things. And a ton of Indigenous knowledge is carried so much time domain, that, you know, if I think, you know, if Western astronomers just sat down and listened, we would learn a lot about these knowledges and about the history of the universe. Because it was only a couple centuries ago where we were, where the popular dogma was that the astronomy or space was static, and that it was unchanging. But yeah, that wasn't part of, I think, the Indigenous way.Patty Krawec  What's possible just to come back, you know, to what you had said about you know, when you hear anthropologist, you kind of, because yeah, I mean, they just they get so much wrong because they've got this particular lens that they're trying to jam the story into. So because then like the Anishinaabeg word for North actually means “goes home” and it contains, according to elders, it contains the idea of the glaciers going home, which meant we knew that they weren't always, you know, so during the last ice age, we knew that they had come from the north and gone back, which suggests knowledge of well over, you know, you know, 10-15,000 years because we didn't just know they were there, we knew where they'd come from, we knew that they went back. So it's the same, you know, with the star, maybe they knew it 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 years ago, their language contained the story of this star that is no longer visible, but it was back then. And so when the French anthropologist heard it, they're like, Oh, the stars have always looked like this. Therefore, these people couldn't have figured it out on their own. It must have been aliens telling them about it. Must have been… Hilding Neilson: Yeah Patty Krawec: couldn't have known it themselves, and yet, they did. so that's really, but I hadn't put those things together. That's really neat. So yeah, and we're. Yeah, so we had a question in the chat. So if you could, I don't even know what it means. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you answer that.Hilding Neilson: If we look at the Western constellation Orion, on one of the shoulders was a very red star called Betelgeuse. And this is a famous red supergiant that is near the end of its life. And when it finally dies, it's going to explode as a supernova. And it’s going to be so bright, we'll probably see during the day. Like it'd be, it could be about as bright as Venus. Patty Krawec: WowHilding Neilson: And so this is not the first star that has ever done this, blown up like that. And as opposed to being bright enough and close enough that we could see it. There have been other instances, around the year 1000, there was a star in what was called the Crab Nebula. In terms of Indigenous stories, I've only heard of one. And I can't confirm it, because the times that I was given in the story, don't line up with the astronomical knowledge, but it’s possible. So I was contacted by someone in Mi’kma’ki telling me about the Mi’kmaq flag. And the Mi’kmaq flag is a white flag with a cross and a star and a moon. And the person was telling me that the stars in the moon reflect a catastrophic, catastrophic event or timeframe, where people were struggling and there was starvation. But it was because there was a bright star in the sky that didn't belong there in a constellation that Europe called Cygnus. And he said, this was about 2000 years ago. I was very curious, because the fact that he took, the person told me the constellation, I'm like, I had to look this up. And there is a remnant of a star that was there, but that's, our best estimates’ that it exploded around 20,000 years ago. Now, I don't know, everybody tells time different, stories change. So maybe it's related. We know from more recently, there's a very popular one called the Crab Nebula, which is the explosion about 1000 years ago, that appears on historical records from around the world. It has been linked to the city Cahokia. in what is today Mississippi, I believe, which was a large Indigenous city there. I don't know how true that is. But people have tried to link the two events’ timescales. But as seen, seen a lot of Korean and Chinese texts, where they note that there's a new star in the sky. And so, but funnily enough, it never appeared in European texts that I'm aware of. It has happened, and I think we see these, these stories do occur. I'm not really familiar with too many of them. I'm trying to think if there's any, I can't think of any others off the top of my head. But, you know, even just a few years ago, or a few 100 years ago, you know, the heyday of Isaac Newton, and then, you know, that was a big deal for a lot of astronomers, was to find these new stars, supernovae and so like, you know, Kepler and Deacon Brian and these famous white scientists in Europe, spent time and found a few. Not aware of any stories, Indigenous stories that are being linked to these events. I'm sure they're there.patty krawec  39:16Yeah, yeah, we just need to listen to the stories and sometimes it's, it's the way we hear them. Right. Like, it's understanding like, remember, we talked with Del Lessin some time ago about they're basically rebuilding the Catawba language. And there was a story about oh, I think it was a rabbit. And it caught, you know, things caught on fire. And it, you know, and it sounded like just kind of this funny story about this rabbit dragging fire through a field. But what it actually contained was agricultural knowledge about agricultural burning. And there was a plant, a sunflower-type plant, that has an edible tuber and required…So the story contains all of this knowledge that they didn't initially recognize because of language loss because of culture loss, it just seemed like an interesting story.And so, you know, that now they understand is actually something that contains agriculture, you know, important agricultural knowledge, which then makes you go back and look at the other stories. What knowledge is in there, that we're not getting, because we've lost so much contact context? and like you had said about the Greek stories and stuff that are put up into the constellation, even those are stripped. You know, even in the process of colonizing the sky, they still stripped meaning from it, we don't even get good stories, we just get kind of these stripped-down, sanitized picture books. But the real story is there, like it's there. And in our stories, in our cosmology, we just need to…we just need to listen differently, and look at and look at them differently. And some of that is… how did you start shifting your lens? Because you talked about not not growing up surrounded, you know, by a Mi’kmaq community. How did you start shifting your lens?Hilding Neilson It really wasn't that long ago. You know, I'm fully trained in the Western system of astronomy. And I think really hit off when I had that interaction with Wilfred Buck, not seeing any Indigenous Knowledges. And then just diving into some of the great works, you know, the works, Murray Battista, Gregory cathead, all these great Indigenous science experts talking about all these different ideas and ways of thinking, and perspectives. And I always have to step back and be like, Whoa, what am I? Why am I doing? Why am I thinking about this question this way? Why am I thinking about stellar physics this way? Or quantum mechanics that way? You know, all these things are coming together. And you kind of have to question, I mean, it's really only been like the last four or five years where I've really been trying to relearn everything. And for the most part, I feel like I've done a whole other PhD.patty krawec  42:19So let's talk about quantum mechanics for a minute, because that's, or maybe longer, because that’ll take a minute just to explain what that is. Because I was reading Lawrence Gross, and he has this book called Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being, and I have to get it out again, it's actually behind me on my bookshelf, because there's a chapter in there where he talks about how in the Anishinaabe worldview and way of thinking–and the Mi’kmaq and Anishinabeg are cousins. You know, we migrated east and I guess made relatives and came back. So we're, you know, we're cousins, but he says that our worldview is much closer to kind of a quantum mechanic way of understanding things. And I've read his chapter. I've read Chanda. It's still just outside my grasp. Hilding Neilson: YeahKerry Goring  this is just a really, really smartpatty krawec Two people in the chat are like, Wow, I love quantum mechanics. So yeah, do it!Hilding Neilson Yeah, yeah. So quantum mechanics is one of those things I'm always afraid to talk about, because I don't understand quantum mechanics either. I suspect most people in physics and astronomy don't actually understand quantum mechanics, we just do the math and hope for the best.Patty Krawec  AW says they are a quantum mechanic.Kerry Goring  And that's interesting, because I had just listened… I'm laughing about that, because I had just listened to a talk with a physicist named Sean. What is Sean last name? Hilding Neilson: Sean Carroll?Kerry Goring: Sean Carroll. Yes. And he was talking about that. And I thought it was fascinating that physicists are more concerned with the application, is that a better way of putting it? Versus actually an overall grasp of what they're actually…what actually it is? And that was like mind blowing to me to know that it's, we just assume, there's like this assumption that this works. But nobody's really looked at what makes it work, if that makes…or we're looking at what makes it work, but not why it's there. Does that make sense? Sort of? I think?Hilding NeilsonI think it makes perfect sense. I think, I think we do focus a lot on the how it works, as opposed to why it’s doing what it's doing. And I think from very much this, astronomers’ perspective, which is quantum mechanics is something you try to do your best to approximate and not actually work with. You just try to work around it. We think so much from this classical Euclidean sense and quantum mechanics is completely counterintuitive to that. Whereas most Indigenous knowledges that are coming to grasp how everything is very much about relative, like how things relate between you and I. How I observe something is very different from how you observe something, and that both truths can be true. Whereas in the West, we think everything has to be an absolute truth, which defies quantum mechanics because quantum mechanics of the particle has some speed and some place, but you can't really tell which is which. And, and so a lot of these respects, I feel like Indigenous knowledges have an easier time with quantum mechanics, because I think Indigenous knowledge is a little more relaxed about not knowing things; it's okay that there are mysteries. Whereas in the West, having a mystery is the worst thing possible. You know, it, it has to be explainable, has to be reducible. It has to be objective, and, like, I have trouble with quantum mechanics. I listen to Sean Carroll, fairly regularly, you know, I love his, his writing and words, and he signed it as “many worlds theory,” where you get, where if you observe a quantum event, depending on how you observe it, the universe branches. And then like, are we literally increasing the number of universes to help us explain how we don't know something? And we kind of do that we, when we don't understand something locally, we tend to make things bigger. We don't, we don't understand evolution. So we make evolutionary changes smaller, over a longer time, time periods. It works. We don't understand cosmology? Make the universe older. Or you don't understand why cosmology works? So well, we just create a multiverse. You know, one of the explanations of how we're, that we can live in a universe that seems to work, is that there's lots of universes. And there's just so many of these things like that, I think, you know, my understanding of Indigenous people is, we live in a universe that works, where things are just perfect for us to exist, because we exist, it has to be that way. That's how we're related, that's how our relation with the universe. Whereas if you're in the West, you have the axiom that the universe doesn't care about us, that we, you know, the fact that we exist should just be a fluke. For the fact that we live in a universe that’s just right. Can't, doesn't make sense. And I have colleagues who get really stressed out by this question. And given, given to the point, they try to pull out their hair, which, given that no one’s had a haircut in a long time, might be useful. But they just struggle with this, and they don't like it. So sometimes they come up with the multiverse theory where we have, where we are in one universe in a bubble of others. And there are other reasons to expect the multiverse. AW Peet is much more of an expert on that than I am, for instance, I'd rather, I'd rather defer to them. But please let AW jump in. There's just so many of these things that I think Indigenous knowledges learn to accept, because it's part of being in relation. And our relationality is what makes, allows for these things to work. I think with quantum mechanics, it’s a little more difficult, because it's, we also accept there's a mystery, but there is fuzzy truth, when there's multiple truths that can can coexist at the same time. Whereas in the West, everything has to be objectively true. I do experiment, you do experiment, you should get the same answer. Yeah. And that objectivity doesn't quite work. Otherwise. Patty Krawec: Oh, okay.Hilding Neilson: but that's sort of the best I can come up with, by kind of b.s.ing a lot. You know, but Yeah, cuz I'm really speaking not in my best. Yeah.Kerry Goring  I love that you, you know, took the attempt, and I think you did beautifully with it. I appreciate you, kind of, tackling it. Because I think what I love about that is it's almost from this layman's space with a plus, because you definitely know more than we do. But what I, when I think about this, and then we put it into the space of our Indigenous, and you know, my Afro-centric cultures, it does come from that acceptance, that mystery is real, and with that, offers the simplicity to be in relation with all of those spaces. And what I mean by “spaces” is the universe, the stars, the earth, how we stand on the earth, the relationship that we have with, you know, the animals on our planes, all of those things have an interconnected sense that is wrapped in the mystery. And so, when we, like, I totally believe in the scientific, scientific method and I, you know, I understand that being a space that we have as a template to work from, but I do sometimes think that that part of it, the idea of the acceptance, that some of it is still to be revealed. And being okay in that is lacking in the way that we exist. And so what happens with that is that it's exactly that idea of disregarding, you know, or just pretending that that mystery isn't valuable.Patty Krawec  I had a, I remember when I was in science in grade nine, our science teacher, because it was the only year that I had to take science. We had a teacher who had, we were going over the criteria for life. And I think there's six, I don't remember what they are. Anyway, so we had, we had, there were six criteria for life. And he asked us, you know, you know, he's kind of running us through it, do plants meet it? does this person meet it? Does this, the rocks meet the criteria? And you know, we kind of go through it, And we're like, Nope, they don't. And he asked us again, are you sure? And we're like, oh, is this a trick question? You know, and so we went through them again, and we're like, nope, rocks are not alive. They don't meet the criteria. And he says, Well, what if they just do this too slow? And we can't measure it? What if they do this, and you know, we just don't have the capacity to see it? Like, he wasn't trying to tell us that rocks were alive. He was trying to tell us to keep those questions open. That what we, because he says science is one long chain of “we thought we knew that and we turned out to be wrong.” So maybe our criteria is wrong. And we always need to be open, you know, to thinking and questioning.And he's the only science teacher that I came across was like that. Because I think like you said, they have this idea that there's fixed knowledge. And I wonder, I wonder if some of that comes down to European thinkers emerging in a place where everybody had the same basic cosmology, right? Like, the, all three Abrahamic religions existed. And you know, in Europe, the Jews and the Muslims were not treated very well. But they had the same fundamental cosmology, the same creation story, the same flood narrative. Whereas here, we're all bumping up against each other with our trading relationships and our treaties and stuff. And we don't have the same cosmologies. You know, the Anishinaabeg and the Haudenosaunee lived, you know, very close to each other in lots of spaces. And we have some similarities, but some significant differences in terms of how we understand the world. And the Anishinaabeg and the Lakota are also kind of right up against each other. And we have significantly different cosmologies in terms of…like, there's a lot of similarities about how we see the world, but our cosmology, like our religions, you know, to use that word, are very different. And yet we learned to accept that it was not a big deal. So I kind of wonder if some of that, because now I'm reading, a pastor friend of mine, has recommended this book, shoot, what's it called? Hebrew, The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics. And she's writing all about how the Bible is full of language about the world being alive, of trees, of the personhood of creation, and a very Indigenous, like, what I would think of as a very Anishinaabeg way of thinking of, the trees are people, the stars are people, the rivers are people, that this stuff is woven through. Because she says that when we talk about it, like it's a metaphor, we're not… like, you know, “the trees clap with joy.” And we're not saying that the trees have hands, but we're saying that they're expressing joy, that when the Hebrew people came back to the land, the land was happy, that the land had the capacity to care. And that's been completely stripped, like that's not present anywhere in any Christian theology that I have heard. So that's been completely stripped from the text and this is kind of my quest right now, about how these things got stripped. Because it got stripped from the way we understand the sky so…I don't even remember where I was going with that.Kerry Goring  I’m just loving it though.patty krawec  They had created this kind of monolithic belief system that didn't allow for that kind of relationality whereas here on Turtle Island, or whatever we want to call it, we were constantly bumping up against other ways of thinking about things and had…we're just okay with it. Like that's just the Lakota are weird, but that's who they are.Kerry Goring  It's okay to be like that, you know, that sense of acceptance, right? It's that sense of being in acceptance for all of it that I think is, is what you're bringing front and center. And just even taking in what you're saying there, Patty, I think it's quite brilliant, really interesting book, that's got to go down in the check of that one.Hilding Neilson That me too, that sounds very…very interesting.Kerry Goring  That's very interesting. Um, however, what, what also comes to me when I think about that, is this sense that we have here that with that stripping, it was, it was what afforded this whole system, the colonial space that we exist in, to be even created. And this disconnection that we are experiencing with the Earth and the land, I just want my, my breath was just really heavy earlier today, because I was reading an article, I think it was in USA Today. And they were talking about, they want to move from saying climate change into using the terminology climate emergency. Because of the carbon that's in the earth, in the atmosphere, we're moving in major, major ways that is getting scary. They know that the Antarctic, the sheets, the ice sheets in the Antarctic, are going to hit the sea very soon. And it's just a really scary dynamic. And personally, I have family, you know, in St. Vincent right now, where there is a, the volcano is going off, and I'm getting live, you know, real live. You know, just talking to my people's real live experience of what that kind of space is. And so when I think about how we have existed and disconnected, the answers for me are coming from when we are doing and having conversations like this, of course, but really deep diving into this exploration of how we relate. How do we come back? How do we figure out those pieces that have been taken out and put back in? So you know, when I hear that you're doing this work, Hilding, that, to me is like, it's invaluable. How do we create this space now?Hilding Neilson Yeah, this is very interesting. Without the discussion, last semester was popped my mind is Mars. So NASA just .. this most recent mission Mars called Perseverance, you know, a little toy car going around the surface of Mars, going out of the first helicopter launch on Mars. And there are lots of robots on Mars, and maybe in 20 years, there will be people. And hopefully, those people will not be led by Elon Musk. But, you know, but it does raise a lot of questions in the meantime, which is, how alive is Mars? We don't know of anything alive on Mars within our current definition. We're pretty sure nothing comes above the surface. We haven't really explored the subsurface of Mars. There could be life. Maybe single, probably single single cell life. Life is there, probably there. And even if it isn't, do we have rights to impact that? What are the rights of Mars? I mean, you know, there's a great comic. That's the earth in a hospital bed. And another planet is a doctor saying, “Oops, you have humans?” Do we really have a right to infect Mars with more humans? Or do we have that same right to the moon? How do we do that? How do we talk about coloni-? You know? Because we do, we literally talk about Mars as colonization. Patty Krawec:Yes Hilding Neilson: We have movies of Matt Damon on Mars and we send billions of dollars rescuing rescuing a dumb white dude. Yeah, and fully full disclosure. I'm also a dumb white dude. So you know, how do we talk about Mars? From an Anishinaabeg perspective? What would an Anishinabeg, what would the Haudenosaunee, what would a Mi’kmaq or Inuit mission to Mars look like? How do we engage and interact with Mars? You know, do we? What gifts do you offer Mars? If we visit, what are we allowed to take away from Mars? And we need, really need to have that conversation because right now the conversation is basically a Western novel. And we, the word frontier gets used a lot. Or colonizing, you know, they've sort of avoided colonization for the word exploration. But it's pretty much a dog whistle when it's basically going to be Elon Musk, or another rich dude sending people there to do space mining. Because, you know, capitalism. And how we face these things, I think very much because in this play of environmental ethics, as you mentioned, how we relate, how we want to be intentionally related with Mars, because I mean, humans, if the human mission to Mars has the same kind of history as on Earth, and last century of climate change, we're probably not going to leave it, do anything good on Mars.Patty Krawec We're not going to leave better than we found it.Hilding Neilson No. And I mean, there are people who talk about dropping asteroids on Mars with the sole purpose of heating it up, blowing it up and creating an atmosphere, so that we can terraform it. I mean, that's sort of what people really dream about is terraforming Mars. And I think we can look around North America and various other parts of the world and see terraforming from, you know, when Europeans killed the bison and introduced wheat and cattle to the prairie, or how we terraform north, at different parts of the world. Doesn't quite work as well as when we look at how various Indigenous communities sort of lived in concerts, where you know, Haudenosaunee, and their farming practices, pastoral farming out east, you know, the way we treat hunts, and all these things. And so we need to have a, we definitely need to have this space open for more Indigenous, whether it's Indigenous from North America, Afro-Indigenous, Australian Indigenous, specific, everywhere in this conversation. And to be honest, if I'm going to fly on a rocket from the Earth to Mars, over 200 days, the person I probably want to ask about is someone who can actually navigate the Pacific using nothing but their hand, as opposed to say NASA who, sent Matt Damon to Mars. There's so much expertise in Indigenous communities for doing these things that we don't even think about. At least in the Western, from NASA or the Canadian Space Agency, necessarily. And so we should be having this conversation. And we should be having that we really need that space, if this is what we want to do. If not, if we not we're basically going to leave space exploration and going to the moon and basically passing NASA satellites to people like Elon Musk. And if it's not obvious, I kind of really dislike that guy.patty krawec  Well, just like when we were talking about the skyKerry Goring: How did we guess? Patty Krawec: And, you know, it's not just cluttered from light below. Thanks to Elon Musk, it's cluttered from, it's now cluttered, you know, from things he's putting up there. And, you know, it's causing problems and he doesn't care because that's not, that's not his, that's not the frame that he thinks within.Hilding Neilson If light pollution erases our stories, those satellites are rewriting them. Patty Krawec: Yes. Hilding Neilson: And why does he get to do that?Kerry Goring  Love that. And I think that is so powerful. I never, like, I've had these thoughts. So hearing you speak it and really, you know, bringing that into the light, love that. I'm really relating, it resonates deeply because I agree with you. And for me, the other piece to that is this idea that we discard the earth, this idea that we have raped her, you know, The Earth has been raped and pillaged very much like, guess what, you know, every colonial story that we know. And now we're about to just move on. And so it speaks to me about this push in the way that we are human. And how we are showing up in our humanness. So I, and without the interjection, without that conversation being had, and I don't know if it's happening en mass yet, but without those conversations, we are destined to repeat itHilding Neilson Absolutely, I mean, you know, if Amazon, Jeff Bezos , if these people are driving the conversation, you know, they're just, they're just the mercantile colonialists. There's no difference in Elon Musk and Samuel de Champlain. And the worst part about Samuel de Champlain, is he had his life saved by Indigenous people cuz he went ..  and be cured of scurvy and he just thanked God, as opposed to the, you know, people? Patty Krawec: Yeah. Hilding Neilson: And this is what we’re facing again. Yeah, we're facing this again. It’s this, the same story, just being retold on a whole new scale. And people are, conversations are starting to be had. I think there’re developments in terms of international law with things called Artemis Accords, which are related primarily to going to the moon and lunar exploration. But the biggest thing there is about preserving sites on the moon of astronomical significance or human significance. So, you know, where they planted the flag on the moon, that might be a national park, or lunar National Park. But that doesn't stop anybody from moving up there. And, you know, drawing a smiley face on the face of the moon.patty krawec And national parks…Kerry Goring  What, what does that even mean?patty krawec  1:05:58Right, because they create this idea of wilderness and nature that takes people out of it. And it preserves it, like, for what? You know, so it's just, why are we like this? Why are we like this? where to think about what kinds of humans. I just wrote an essay for Rampant Magazine, where we're like, what kind of people do we want to be? What kind of ancestors, you know? As we get thinking about, you   know, thinking about the stars, you know, looking up at the stars, and knowing that those are our ancestors and knowing that we're going to be ancestors, we're going to be star stuff, you know. So what kind of ancestors do we want to be to the worlds that come after us? Because we're, you know, worlds came before us, worlds will come after us, what kind of ancestors do we want to be? What do we want to leave? What kind of footsteps do we want to leave? And stories and possibilities? And we got to think about that stuff. As opposed to? Well, they are, they are thinking about that kind of stuff. They're just not coming to the same conclusions that we would want them to.Kerry Goring  What big? How big is that? Like? What we're talking about? I'm really interested in those, in the conversations. How big is that movement? Is it? Is it growing? Like, is there an understanding that, wait a minute, we're creating the possibility of lunar parks on the moon like that, that makes me…I'm laughing, but I'm horrified all in the same breath. Are those conversations coming up in real ways, like in “Wait a minute. Hello, hello, hello,” type thoughts? Because we are hearing more about the explorations happening. And, and do we have somebody tempering it? Is that something?Hilding Neilson I don't think we really have a very strong conversation around space ethics. It's growing, largely because that's the only direction it can possibly go. It's harder to have fewer, fewer than zero people talking about it. So there's things that are starting to happen slowly in the astronomy community, but it's very limited. I think astronomy, my colleagues really kind of learned something about this from Elon Musk, when he put up the satellites and it interfered with telescopes on our, you know, because when the satellites cross upon the telescope, you just got all these streaks on your images. And they, and there were people who freaked out and accused Elon Musk of colonization, and not consulting and all this other language that we were ignoring from Native Hawaiians talking about the 30 meter telescope on Mauna Kea. And this is a project in Hawai’i to build a very big telescope on top of the mountain, where many Native Hawaiians said, “No, we're good.” And many of my colleagues were turned, kind of, were very against the Hawaiian response, using phrases like “science versus religion,” “progress versus history.” And then they used the same language as many of the Indigenous peoples were using to talk about Elon Musk. And I'm not sure they, some of them, I don't think quite got that hypocrisy. But I think a lot of people started to see that there has to be a greater discussion of voice because no matter, no matter what's happening, you know, at some point, your voice is not, might not be the one that gets heard. And then you pay the price. And so I think some of this is becoming more and more important, you know, particularly as space becomes the playground for the very, very ridiculously, uber rich.Patty Krawec  Well, this has been super interesting.I’m super interested in, you know, get in, getting more into, kind of, what quantum mechanics… just because, like what you had said about the relationality of it, and how that, you know, and how that has implications for how we understand how we work within the world, and how we relate to things. So I'm really interested in kind of going, going in that direction. I don't know, man, I read this physics book. And it was super interesting. And nobody saw that coming.Kerry Goring  1:11:45Did you watch Ant Man? Have you watched Ant Man?Patty Krawec  1:11:49No! It’s probably one of the few MC films that I haven't watchedKerry Goring  1:11:53Watch Ant Man. It will, it's a very, it was what? Okay, not really, but a little bit of what really sparked my interest in wanting to know more about quantum physics, was Ant Man. So that's also, maybe that's something we can all chat about too the next time you’re on.Patty Lrawec 1:12:13Well, I’ll watch Ant ManHilding Neilson Also, go back and rewatch End Game. All the time travel stuff is basically Sean Carroll's interpretation of quantum mechanics.patty krawec  Really. Okay that I have seen, that I have seen. Okay, AW’s putting Ant Man on their watch list.Hilding Neilson It’s a good heist movie.Kerry Goring It was a great movie. It's one of my favorites for this, from that world so…thank you, Hilding!Thank you, Hilding! I appreciate you man. This was a great talk. And also please let's, let's do this again. Got my mind working. Definitely got my mind working. And I appreciate you.patty krawec Thank you so much. Hilding Neilson: Thank you! Patty Krawec: It's super interesting. Alright, bye byeHilding Neilson: Take care.You can find more about Hilding and his work on his website And thankyou to Nick for the transcription!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com

Ivan Teller
Andromeda Council Alice In Wonderland Crab Nebula Constellation Taurus

Ivan Teller

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2022 29:16


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Cosmic Cuts
Show 93

Cosmic Cuts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2022 64:51


Cosmic Cuts lives in the primordial soup of hip hop, boom bap, electronica, soul and Rnb. This episode is curated by @pam_thecoolest and features a collection of vibes meditating on love in all its shades. Turn it up! artist - track yazmin lacey - own your own the hood internet - the thing u do (miguel x shlohmo x rl grime) vanjess - good & plenty remix ft masego, lucky daye harrison brome - i know nakala - paris ft jordo sol rising - tell me what you want ro james - permission samm henshaw - grow iamnobodi - when you know it rhye - open (bondax remix) asaiah ziv - here (ft xavier omar) d smoke & fireboy dml - sleepwalking wet - don't wanna be your girl (branchez remix) teamarrr - show me love (ft meer colon) sango & waldo - crossroads (ft xavier omar) kacy hill - experience (esta remix ft rome fortune) moods - truth (ft beau nox) kota the friend - colorado mac miller - we (ft ceelo green) mahalia - proud of me (ft little simz) image credit: Crab Nebula, ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia17563-crab-nebula-as-seen-by-herschel-and-hubble

Top of the Round
S01E138 - Crisis Management

Top of the Round

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 51:42


Chaz and Zek'kar make their moves to acquire the body of Amrog while being pursued by an ominous figure. Meanwhile Talice turns over a new leaf only to discover running the Conspiracy in the Ivory's absence is far more lethal than expected. Kenon Pearce as DM and Various NPCs Jordache Richardson as Chaz and Brad Nikki Richardson as Talice  ISHNAR/KALCRIN HOMEBREW SETTING by Kenon Pearce   Sound editing and design by Nikki Richardson   Kenon Pearce @mr_fugufish Jordache Richardson @jdash24 Nikki Ri @nikkirivo   Website: totrpodcast.com Twitter: @totrcast Facebook: @topoftheround Instagram: @topoftheround THANK YOU HONORARY PRODUCERS! Chris Williams   Gail Yadon Beth/Dee20 Koebaebeefboo David Biggs Dawn Prewett Wanna talk to the cast? Check out our private Discord! https://discord.gg/qshNJJfKRr Or check out our channel on the CastJunkie Discord Server! https://discord.gg/napQ3Cb   Go to our website for MERCH! https://www.totrpodcast.com/merch-store.html#/   Find/Review us on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/top-of-the-round-808056   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/topoftheround Buy us a cup of coffee on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/topoftheround   TOTR WIKIPEDIA! https://topoftheround.fandom.com/wiki/Top_of_the_Round_Wiki   LIGHT OF THE HOPELESS BY NICK HIGHAM https://www.nickjhigham.co.uk/   Breaking News by NoiseWorld licensed through AudioJungle/Envato - Music Broadcast and Standard License - https://audiojungle.net/licenses/terms/music_standard/2.0  https://audiojungle.net/licenses/terms/music_broadcast_ten_million Boutique by Lilo Sound Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8849-boutique License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Division by Kevin MacLeod Link: 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Short 2 by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6401-comedy-short-2 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Crossroads by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4866-crossroads License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Midnight Magic  by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5426-midnight-magic- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Trapped In A Clocktower by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8583-trapped-in-a-clocktower License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Enchanted Journey by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3708-enchanted-journey License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The Pyre by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4504-the-pyre License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Frost Waltz (Alternate) by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3780-frost-waltz-alternate- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Not As It Seems by Kevin MacLeod Link: 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License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Alone Ambience by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8571-alone-ambience License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Creepy Piano Ambience by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8725-creepy-piano-ambience License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Children Eating Corn by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8487-children-eating-corn License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Darkling by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3616-darkling License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Chase Pulse by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3488-chase-pulse License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Executioner by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8436-executioner License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Pursuit In The Outback by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8730-pursuit-in-the-outback License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Bugbears Be Approaching by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8518-bugbears-be-approaching License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Static Motion by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4414-static-motion License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Unlight by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4566-unlight License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Interior Dread by Brian Holtz Music Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6980-interior-dread License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Improbable by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4069-improbable License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Suspense Strings by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8866-suspense-strings License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Relaxing Concerto by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8865-relaxing-concerto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3906-in-your-arms License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Danceatmidnight by Lilo Sound Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5534-danceatmidnight License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Faceoff by Lilo Sound Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6839-faceoff License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Aquarium by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5738-aquarium License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Lost Signals by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8868-lost-signals License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Crab Nebula by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8695-crab-nebula License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Night of the Owl by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4128-night-of-the-owl License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

astro[sound]bites
Episode 45: Jamming with the GBT

astro[sound]bites

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 50:00


It's time to talk radio on the radio! In this episode, we explore some of the research beaming out of the world's largest fully steerable radio dish -- the Green Bank Telescope (GBT)! We hear from Brenne Gregory, a Scientific Data Analyst at GBT, about her trek from the rolling hills of Scotland to the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. Will keeps his finger on the pulse of a pair of neutron stars, and Alex listens for a lawn mower at the heart of the Crab Nebula.   Astrobite:  https://astrobites.org/2021/08/21/double-neutron-star-trouble/   Space Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BQV3WX80E   Green Bank REU and Internship page: http://greenbankobservatory.org/about/careers/

NIGHT-LIGHT RADIO
Star Shrines & Earthworks of Southwest w/Gary David–Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

NIGHT-LIGHT RADIO

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2021 46:19


Over a period of centuries, the Ancient Ones of the American Southwest constructed a pattern of sandstone villages that precisely matches key constellations in the sky. This book plunges you into the mysteries of these unified star correlations. Other fascinating topics include Orion's global stargate shrines, Arizona earth chakras, crypto-creatures, and star ancestors. Encounter a pre-Columbian counterculture in New Mexico, a prehistoric Mexican city obsessed with macaws, and the lost empire of Aztlá¡n. Read compelling evidence of transoceanic migrations to the Southwest in early epochs. Find out why an extensive road system was built by a people who did not use the wheel. Learn the purpose of massive pyramids and canals made by those who once lived on the site of modern-day Phoenix. Time-travel back to the Age of Taurus for the current significance of the Crab Nebula supernova. Then return to explore the subterranean origin of the Anasazi, the cave conundrum of Grand Canyon, the Hopi Mystery Egg, and prophecies of the Fifth World. Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus www.Zoharaonline.com. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

NIGHT-LIGHT RADIO
Star Shrines & Earthworks of Southwest w/Gary David–Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

NIGHT-LIGHT RADIO

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2021 47:00


Over a period of centuries, the Ancient Ones of the American Southwest constructed a pattern of sandstone villages that precisely matches key constellations in the sky. This book plunges you into the mysteries of these unified star correlations. Other fascinating topics include Orion's global stargate shrines, Arizona earth chakras, crypto-creatures, and star ancestors. Encounter a pre-Columbian counterculture in New Mexico, a prehistoric Mexican city obsessed with macaws, and the lost empire of Aztlá¡n. Read compelling evidence of transoceanic migrations to the Southwest in early epochs. Find out why an extensive road system was built by a people who did not use the wheel. Learn the purpose of massive pyramids and canals made by those who once lived on the site of modern-day Phoenix. Time-travel back to the Age of Taurus for the current significance of the Crab Nebula supernova. Then return to explore the subterranean origin of the Anasazi, the cave conundrum of Grand Canyon, the Hopi Mystery Egg, and prophecies of the Fifth World. Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus www.Zoharaonline.com. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

Night-Light Radio
Star Shrines & Earthworks of Southwest w/Gary David–Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus

Night-Light Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2021 46:19


Over a period of centuries, the Ancient Ones of the American Southwest constructed a pattern of sandstone villages that precisely matches key constellations in the sky. This book plunges you into the mysteries of these unified star correlations. Other fascinating topics include Orion's global stargate shrines, Arizona earth chakras, crypto-creatures, and star ancestors. Encounter a pre-Columbian counterculture in New Mexico, a prehistoric Mexican city obsessed with macaws, and the lost empire of Aztlá¡n. Read compelling evidence of transoceanic migrations to the Southwest in early epochs. Find out why an extensive road system was built by a people who did not use the wheel. Learn the purpose of massive pyramids and canals made by those who once lived on the site of modern-day Phoenix. Time-travel back to the Age of Taurus for the current significance of the Crab Nebula supernova. Then return to explore the subterranean origin of the Anasazi, the cave conundrum of Grand Canyon, the Hopi Mystery Egg, and prophecies of the Fifth World. Hosted by Dr. Zohara Hieronimus www.Zoharaonline.com. Produced by Hieronimus & Co. for 21st Century Radio®.  Edited version provided to Nightlight Radio with permission.

Curiosity Daily
Emily Oster on Parenting Decisions, A New Type of Supernova

Curiosity Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 15:40


Learn how parents can get smarter about making big decisions, with author Emily Oster; and electron-capture supernovas.  Additional resources from Emily Oster: Pick up "The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early Years" at your local bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781984881755?aff=penguinrandom  Website: https://emilyoster.net/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster  Observation of a new type of supernova sheds light on a famous supernova from 1054 AD by Briana Brownell Scientists spotted an electron-capture supernova for the first time. (2021, July). Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/supernova-electron-capture-space-astronomy-physics  ‌A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/tu-asi071421.php  ‌Hiramatsu, D., Howell, D. A., Van Dyk, S. D., Goldberg, J. A., Maeda, K., Moriya, T. J., Tominaga, N., Nomoto, K., Hosseinzadeh, G., Arcavi, I., McCully, C., Burke, J., Bostroem, K. A., Valenti, S., Dong, Y., Brown, P. J., Andrews, J. E., Bilinski, C., Williams, G. G., & Smith, P. S. (2021). The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01384-2  Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to learn something new every day withCody Gough andAshley Hamer. Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ThePrint
Pure Science: Crab Nebula — Astronomers confirm new kind of supernova

ThePrint

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 9:07


Astronomers have confirmed that the 'Crab Nebula' is a remnant of an ‘electron capture supernova', something that was theorised only 40 years ago. ThePrint's Sandhya Ramesh explains what the different kinds of supernovae are and what an electron capture supernova is. 

Tech News Now
The Crab Nebula is even more powerful than scientists thought

Tech News Now

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2021 3:02


New findings show the Crab Nebula's power pushes even theoretical limits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lagrange Point
Episode 438 - Super fast and dense White Dwarfs and odd Supernova

Lagrange Point

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 21:01


What happens at the end of a star's life if it doesn't go out with a bang? White dwarfs are the end stage for 97% of stars, but can they still go 'nova? What happens if two white dwarf stars merge together? Rotating once every 7 minutes with a magnetic field billions times stronger than the Sun, super dense white dwarfs break all the records. There are many types of supernova, but which one happened at the Crab Nebula in 1054? What happens if a star isn't quite heavy enough to have an iron core supernova? Electrons are so tiny compared to a supergiant star, but if they're taken away it can lead to a supernova. Caiazzo, I., Burdge, K.B., Fuller, J. et al. A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon. Nature, 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03615-y Daichi Hiramatsu, D. Andrew Howell, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Jared A. Goldberg, Keiichi Maeda, Takashi J. Moriya, Nozomu Tominaga, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Iair Arcavi, Curtis McCully, Jamison Burke, K. Azalee Bostroem, Stefano Valenti, Yize Dong, Peter J. Brown, Jennifer E. Andrews, Christopher Bilinski, G. Grant Williams, Paul S. Smith, Nathan Smith, David J. Sand, Gagandeep S. Anand, Chengyuan Xu, Alexei V. Filippenko, Melina C. Bersten, Gastón Folatelli, Patrick L. Kelly, Toshihide Noguchi, Koichi Itagaki. The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd. Nature Astronomy, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01384-2

Le Livre du Prophète Kacou Philippe Version audio)
Kacou 145: Islam or the crab nebula

Le Livre du Prophète Kacou Philippe Version audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 51:21


Sermon of Prophet Kacou Philippe. Like Noah for his time, Kacou Philippe is the prophet sent by the Lord Jesus Christ for the Salvation of our time according to the call and commission that he received by a vision on April 24, 1993 in fulfilment of Matth25:6

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RSR's List of Not So Old Things

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2021


[While Bob & Cheryl Enyart go fishing we invite you to enjoy from the RSR archives our favorite List of Not So Old Things! Photos from today, June 25, 2021.] -- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion." Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation. * Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient. * Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old.” But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the cla

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Bob Enyart Live
RSR's List of Not So Old Things

Bob Enyart Live

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2021


  [While Bob & Cheryl Enyart go fishing we invite you to enjoy from the RSR archives our favorite List of Not So Old Things! Photos from today, June 25, 2021.] -- Finches Diversify in Decades, Opals Form in Months,  Man's Genetic Diversity in 200 Generations, C-14 Everywhere: Real Science Radio hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams present their classic program that led to the audience-favorites rsr.org/list-shows! See below and hear on today's radio program our list of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things! From opals forming in months to man's genetic diversity in 200 generations, and with carbon 14 everywhere it's not supposed to be (including in diamonds and dinosaur bones!), scientific observations fill the guys' most traditional list challenging those who claim that the earth is billions of years old. Many of these scientific finds demand a re-evaluation of supposed million and billion-year ages. * Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: Charles Darwin's finches are claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. Hear about this also at rsr.org/spetner. * Opals Can Form in "A Few Months" And Don't Need 100,000 Years: A leading authority on opals, Allan W. Eckert, observed that, "scientific papers and textbooks have told that the process of opal formation requires tens of thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands... Not true." A 2011 peer-reviewed paper in a geology journal from Australia, where almost all the world's opal is found, reported on the: "new timetable for opal formation involving weeks to a few months and not the hundreds of thousands of years envisaged by the conventional weathering model." (And apparently, per a 2019 report from Entomology Today, opals can even form around insects!) More knowledgeable scientists resist the uncritical, group-think insistence on false super-slow formation rates (as also for manganese nodules, gold veins, stone, petroleum, canyons and gullies, and even guts, all below). Regarding opals, Darwinian bias led geologists to long ignore possible quick action, as from microbes, as a possible explanation for these mineraloids. For both in nature and in the lab, opals form rapidly, not even in 10,000 years, but in weeks. See this also from creationists by a geologist, a paleobiochemist, and a nuclear chemist. * Finches Speciate in Two Generations vs Two Million Years for Darwin's Birds?  Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are said to have diversified into 14 species over a period of two million years. But in 2017 the journal Science reported a newcomer to the Island which within two generations spawned a reproductively isolated new species. In another instance as documented by Lee Spetner, a hundred birds of the same finch species introduced to an island cluster a 1,000 kilometers from Galapagos diversified into species with the typical variations in beak sizes, etc. "If this diversification occurred in less than seventeen years," Dr. Spetner asks, "why did Darwin's Galapagos finches [as claimed by evolutionists] have to take two million years?" * Blue Eyes Originated Not So Long Ago: Not a million years ago, nor a hundred thousand years ago, but based on a peer-reviewed paper in Human Genetics, a press release at Science Daily reports that, "research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today." * Adding the Entire Universe to our List of Not So Old Things? Based on March 2019 findings from Hubble, Nobel laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and his co-authors in the Astrophysical Journal estimate that the universe is about a billion years younger than previously thought! Then in September 2019 in the journal Science, the age dropped precipitiously to as low as 11.4 billion years! Of course, these measurements also further squeeze the canonical story of the big bang chronology with its many already existing problems including the insufficient time to "evolve" distant mature galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, enormous black holes, filaments, bubbles, walls, and other superstructures. So, even though the latest estimates are still absurdly too old (Google: big bang predictions, and click on the #1 ranked article, or just go on over there to rsr.org/bb), regardless, we thought we'd plop the whole universe down on our List of Not So Old Things!   * After the Soft Tissue Discoveries, NOW Dino DNA: When a North Carolina State University paleontologist took the Tyrannosaurus Rex photos to the right of original biological material, that led to the 2016 discovery of dinosaur DNA, So far researchers have also recovered dinosaur blood vessels, collagen, osteocytes, hemoglobin, red blood cells, and various proteins. As of May 2018, twenty-six scientific journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS One, Bone, and Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, have confirmed the discovery of biomaterial fossils from many dinosaurs! Organisms including T. Rex, hadrosaur, titanosaur, triceratops, Lufengosaur, mosasaur, and Archaeopteryx, and many others dated, allegedly, even hundreds of millions of years old, have yielded their endogenous, still-soft biological material. See the web's most complete listing of 100+ journal papers (screenshot, left) announcing these discoveries at bflist.rsr.org and see it in layman's terms at rsr.org/soft. * Rapid Stalactites, Stalagmites, Etc.: A construction worker in 1954 left a lemonade bottle in one of Australia's famous Jenolan Caves. By 2011 it had been naturally transformed into a stalagmite (below, right). Increasing scientific knowledge is arguing for rapid cave formation (see below, Nat'l Park Service shrinks Carlsbad Caverns formation estimates from 260M years, to 10M, to 2M, to it "depends"). Likewise, examples are growing of rapid formations with typical chemical make-up (see bottle, left) of classic stalactites and stalagmites including:- in Nat'l Geo the Carlsbad Caverns stalagmite that rapidly covered a bat - the tunnel stalagmites at Tennessee's Raccoon Mountain - hundreds of stalactites beneath the Lincoln Memorial - those near Gladfelter Hall at Philadelphia's Temple University (send photos to Bob@rsr.org) - hundreds of stalactites at Australia's zinc mine at Mt. Isa.   - and those beneath Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. * Most Human Mutations Arose in 200 Generations: From Adam until Real Science Radio, in only 200 generations! The journal Nature reports The Recent Origin of Most Human Protein-coding Variants. As summarized by geneticist co-author Joshua Akey, "Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so" (the same number previously published by biblical creationists). Another 2012 paper, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (Eugenie Scott's own field) on High mitochondrial mutation rates, shows that one mitochondrial DNA mutation occurs every other generation, which, as creationists point out, indicates that mtEve would have lived about 200 generations ago. That's not so old! * National Geographic's Not-So-Old Hard-Rock Canyon at Mount St. Helens: As our List of Not So Old Things (this web page) reveals, by a kneejerk reaction evolutionary scientists assign ages of tens or hundreds of thousands of years (or at least just long enough to contradict Moses' chronology in Genesis.) However, with closer study, routinely, more and more old ages get revised downward to fit the world's growing scientific knowledge. So the trend is not that more information lengthens ages, but rather, as data replaces guesswork, ages tend to shrink until they are consistent with the young-earth biblical timeframe. Consistent with this observation, the May 2000 issue of National Geographic quotes the U.S. Forest Service's scientist at Mount St. Helens, Peter Frenzen, describing the canyon on the north side of the volcano. "You'd expect a hard-rock canyon to be thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years old. But this was cut in less than a decade." And as for the volcano itself, while again, the kneejerk reaction of old-earthers would be to claim that most geologic features are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, the atheistic National Geographic magazine acknowledges from the evidence that Mount St. Helens, the volcanic mount, is only about 4,000 years old! See below and more at rsr.org/mount-st-helens. * Mount St. Helens Dome Ten Years Old not 1.7 Million: Geochron Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass., using potassium-argon and other radiometric techniques claims the rock sample they dated, from the volcano's dome, solidified somewhere between 340,000 and 2.8 million years ago. However photographic evidence and historical reports document the dome's formation during the 1980s, just ten years prior to the samples being collected. With the age of this rock known, radiometric dating therefore gets the age 99.99999% wrong. * Devils Hole Pupfish Isolated Not for 13,000 Years But for 100: Secular scientists default to knee-jerk, older-than-Bible-age dates. However, a tiny Mojave desert fish is having none of it. Rather than having been genetically isolated from other fish for 13,000 years (which would make this small school of fish older than the Earth itself), according to a paper in the journal Nature, actual measurements of mutation rates indicate that the genetic diversity of these Pupfish could have been generated in about 100 years, give or take a few. * Polystrates like Spines and Rare Schools of Fossilized Jellyfish: Previously, seven sedimentary layers in Wisconsin had been described as taking a million years to form. And because jellyfish have no skeleton, as Charles Darwin pointed out, it is rare to find them among fossils. But now, reported in the journal Geology, a school of jellyfish fossils have been found throughout those same seven layers. So, polystrate fossils that condense the time of strata deposition from eons to hours or months, include: - Jellyfish in central Wisconsin were not deposited and fossilized over a million years but during a single event quick enough to trap a whole school. (This fossil school, therefore, taken as a unit forms a polystrate fossil.) Examples are everywhere that falsify the claims of strata deposition over millions of years. - Countless trilobites buried in astounding three dimensionality around the world are meticulously recovered from limestone, much of which is claimed to have been deposited very slowly. Contrariwise, because these specimens were buried rapidly in quickly laid down sediments, they show no evidence of greater erosion on their upper parts as compared to their lower parts.- The delicacy of radiating spine polystrates, like tadpole and jellyfish fossils, especially clearly demonstrate the rapidity of such strata deposition. - A second school of jellyfish, even though they rarely fossilized, exists in another locale with jellyfish fossils in multiple layers, in Australia's Brockman Iron Formation, constraining there too the rate of strata deposition. By the way, jellyfish are an example of evolution's big squeeze. Like galaxies evolving too quickly, galaxy clusters, and even human feet (which, like Mummy DNA, challenge the Out of Africa paradigm), jellyfish have gotten into the act squeezing evolution's timeline, here by 200 million years when they were found in strata allegedly a half-a-billion years old. Other examples, ironically referred to as Medusoid Problematica, are even found in pre-Cambrian strata. - 171 tadpoles of the same species buried in diatoms. - Leaves buried vertically through single-celled diatoms powerfully refute the claimed super-slow deposition of diatomaceous rock. - Many fossils, including a Mesosaur, have been buried in multiple "varve" layers, which are claimed to be annual depositions, yet they show no erosional patterns that would indicate gradual burial (as they claim, absurdly, over even thousands of years). - A single whale skeleton preserved in California in dozens of layers of diatom deposits thus forming a polystrate fossil. - 40 whales buried in the desert in Chile. "What's really interesting is that this didn't just happen once," said Smithsonian evolutionist Dr. Nick Pyenson. It happened four times." Why's that? Because "the fossil site has at least four layers", to which Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart replies: "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", with RSR co-host Fred Williams thoughtfully adding, "Ha ha!" * Polystrate Trees: Examples abound around the world of polystrate trees:  - Yellowstone's petrified polystrate forest (with the NPS exhibit sign removed; see below) with successive layers of rootless trees demonstrating the rapid deposition of fifty layers of strata. - A similarly formed polystrate fossil forest in France demonstrating the rapid deposition of a dozen strata. - In a thousand locations including famously the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, polystrate fossils such as trees span many strata. - These trees lack erosion: Not only should such fossils, generally speaking, not even exist, but polystrates including trees typically show no evidence of erosion increasing with height. All of this powerfully disproves the claim that the layers were deposited slowly over thousands or millions of years. In the experience of your RSR radio hosts, evolutionists commonly respond to this hard evidence with mocking. See CRSQ June 2006, ICR Impact #316, and RSR 8-11-06 at KGOV.com. * Yellowstone Petrified Trees Sign Removed: The National Park Service removed their incorrect sign (see left and more). The NPS had claimed that in dozens of different strata over a 40-square mile area, many petrified trees were still standing where they had grown. The NPS eventually removed the sign partly because those petrified trees had no root systems, which they would have had if they had grown there. Instead, the trees of this "fossil forest" have roots that are abruptly broken off two or three feet from their trunks. If these mature trees actually had been remnants of sequential forests that had grown up in strata layer on top of strata layer, 27 times on Specimen Ridge (and 50 times at Specimen Creek), such a natural history implies passage of more time than permitted by biblical chronology. So, don't trust the National Park Service on historical science because they're wrong on the age of the Earth. * Wood Petrifies Quickly: Not surprisingly, by the common evolutionary knee-jerk claim of deep time, "several researchers believe that several millions of years are necessary for the complete formation of silicified wood". Our List of Not So Old and Not So Slow Things includes the work of five Japanese scientists who proved creationist research and published their results in the peer-reviewed journal Sedimentary Geology showing that wood can and does petrify rapidly. Modern wood significantly petrified in 36 years these researchers concluded that wood buried in strata could have been petrified in "a fairly short period of time, in the order of several tens to hundreds of years." * The Scablands: The primary surface features of the Scablands, which cover thousands of square miles of eastern Washington, were long believed to have formed gradually. Yet, against the determined claims of uniformitarian geologists, there is now overwhelming evidence as presented even in a NOVA TV program that the primary features of the Scablands formed rapidly from a catastrophic breach of Lake Missoula causing a massive regional flood. Of course evolutionary geologists still argue that the landscape was formed over tens of thousands of years, now by claiming there must have been a hundred Missoula floods. However, the evidence that there was Only One Lake Missoula Flood has been powerfully reinforced by a University of Colorado Ph.D. thesis. So the Scablands itself is no longer available to old-earthers as de facto evidence for the passage of millions of years. * The Heart Mountain Detachment: in Wyoming just east of Yellowstone, this mountain did not break apart slowly by uniformitarian processes but in only about half-an-hour as widely reported including in the evolutionist LiveScience.com, "Land Speed Record: Mountain Moves 62 Miles in 30 Minutes." The evidence indicates that this mountain of rock covering 425 square miles rapidly broke into 50 pieces and slid apart over an area of more than 1,300 square miles in a biblical, not a "geological," timeframe.  * "150 Million" year-old Squid Ink Not Decomposed: This still-writable ink had dehydrated but had not decomposed! The British Geological Survey's Dr. Phil Wilby, who excavated the fossil, said, "It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac fossilised in three dimensions, still black, and inside a rock that is 150 million years old." And the Daily Mail states that, "the black ink was of exactly the same structure as that of today's version", just desiccated. And Wilby added, "Normally you would find only the hard parts like the shell and bones fossilised but... these creatures... can be dissected as if they are living animals, you can see the muscle fibres and cells. It is difficult to imagine... The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it..." Why is this difficult for evolutionists to imagine? Because as Dr. Carl Wieland writes, "Chemical structures 'fall apart' all by themselves over time due to the randomizing effects of molecular motion." Decades ago Bob Enyart broadcast a geology program about Mount St. Helens' catastrophic destruction of forests and the hydraulic transportation and upright deposition of trees. Later, Bob met the chief ranger from Haleakala National Park on Hawaii's island of Maui, Mark Tanaka-Sanders. The ranger agreed to correspond with his colleague at Yellowstone to urge him to have the sign removed. Thankfully, it was then removed. (See also AIG, CMI, and all the original Yellowstone exhibit photos.) Groundbreaking research conducted by creation geologist Dr. Steve Austin in Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens eruption provided a modern-day analog to the formation of Yellowstone fossil forest. A steam blast from that volcano blew over tens of thousands of trees leaving them without attached roots. Many thousands of those trees were floating upright in Spirit Lake, and began sinking at varying rates into rapidly and sporadically deposited sediments. Once Yellowstone's successive forest interpretation was falsified (though like with junk DNA, it's too big to fail, so many atheists and others still cling to it), the erroneous sign was removed. * Asiatic vs. European Honeybees: These two populations of bees have been separated supposedly for seven million years. A researcher decided to put the two together to see what would happen. What we should have here is a failure to communicate that would have resulted after their "language" evolved over millions of years. However, European and Asiatic honeybees are still able to communicate, putting into doubt the evolutionary claim that they were separated over "geologic periods." For more, see the Public Library of Science, Asiatic Honeybees Can Understand Dance Language of European Honeybees. (Oh yeah, and why don't fossils of poorly-formed honeycombs exist, from the millions of years before the bees and natural selection finally got the design right? Ha! Because they don't exist! :) Nautiloid proves rapid limestone formation.* Remember the Nautiloids: In the Grand Canyon there is a limestone layer averaging seven feet thick that runs the 277 miles of the canyon (and beyond) that covers hundreds of square miles and contains an average of one nautiloid fossil per square meter. Along with many other dead creatures in this one particular layer, 15% of these nautiloids were killed and then fossilized standing on their heads. Yes, vertically. They were caught in such an intense and rapid catastrophic flow that gravity was not able to cause all of their dead carcasses to fall over on their sides. Famed Mount St. Helens geologist Steve Austin is also the world's leading expert on nautiloid fossils and has worked in the canyon and presented his findings to the park's rangers at the invitation of National Park Service officials. Austin points out, as is true of many of the world's mass fossil graveyards, that this enormous nautiloid deposition provides indisputable proof of the extremely rapid formation of a significant layer of limestone near the bottom of the canyon, a layer like the others we've been told about, that allegedly formed at the bottom of a calm and placid sea with slow and gradual sedimentation. But a million nautiloids, standing on their heads, literally, would beg to differ. At our sister stie, RSR provides the relevant Geologic Society of America abstract, links, and video. *  Now It's Allegedly Two Million Year-Old Leaves: "When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old..." sur-re-al: adjective: a bizarre mix of fact and fantasy. In this case, the leaves are the facts. Earth scientists from Ohio State and the University of Minnesota say that wood and leaves they found in the Canadian Arctic are at least two million years old, and perhaps more than ten million years old, even though the leaves are just dry and crumbly and the wood still burns! * Gold Precipitates in Veins in Less than a Second: After geologists submitted for decades to the assumption that each layer of gold would deposit at the alleged super slow rates of geologic process, the journal Nature Geoscience reports that each layer of deposition can occur within a few tenths of a second. Meanwhile, at the Lihir gold deposit in Papua New Guinea, evolutionists assumed the more than 20 million ounces of gold in the Lihir reserve took millions of years to deposit, but as reported in the journal Science, geologists can now demonstrate that the deposit could have formed in thousands of years, or far more quickly! Iceland's not-so-old Surtsey Island looks ancient.* Surtsey Island, Iceland: Of the volcanic island that formed in 1963, New Scientist reported in 2007 about Surtsey that "geographers... marvel that canyons, gullies and other land features that typically take tens of thousands or millions of years to form were created in less than a decade." Yes. And Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland's chief  geologist, wrote in the months after Surtsey formed, "that the time scale," he had been trained "to attach to geological developments is misleading." [For what is said to] take thousands of years... the same development may take a few weeks or even days here [including to form] a landscape... so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief... wide sandy beaches and precipitous crags... gravel banks and lagoons, impressive cliffs… hollows, glens and soft undulating land... fractures and faultscarps, channels and screes… confounded by what met your eye... boulders worn by the surf, some of which were almost round... -Iceland's chief geologist * The Palouse River Gorge: In the southeast of Washington State, the Palouse River Gorge is one of many features formed rapidly by 500 cubic miles of water catastrophically released with the breaching of a natural dam in the Lake Missoula Flood (which gouged out the Scablands as described above). So, hard rock can be breached and eroded rapidly. * Leaf Shapes Identical for 190 Million Years?  From Berkley.edu, "Ginkgo biloba... dates back to... about 190 million years ago... fossilized leaf material from the Tertiary species Ginkgo adiantoides is considered similar or even identical to that produced by modern Ginkgo biloba trees... virtually indistinguishable..." The literature describes leaf shapes as "spectacularly diverse" sometimes within a species but especially across the plant kingdom. Because all kinds of plants survive with all kinds of different leaf shapes, the conservation of a species retaining a single shape over alleged deep time is a telling issue. Darwin's theory is undermined by the unchanging shape over millions of years of a species' leaf shape. This lack of change, stasis in what should be an easily morphable plant trait, supports the broader conclusion that chimp-like creatures did not become human beings and all the other ambitious evolutionary creation of new kinds are simply imagined. (Ginkgo adiantoides and biloba are actually the same species. Wikipedia states, "It is doubtful whether the Northern Hemisphere fossil species of Ginkgo can be reliably distinguished." For oftentimes, as documented by Dr. Carl Werner in his Evolution: The Grand Experiment series, paleontogists falsely speciate identical specimens, giving different species names, even different genus names, to the fossil and living animals that appear identical.) * Box Canyon, Idaho: Geologists now think Box Canyon in Idaho, USA, was carved by a catastrophic flood and not slowly over millions of years with 1) huge plunge pools formed by waterfalls; 2) the almost complete removal of large basalt boulders from the canyon; 3) an eroded notch on the plateau at the top of the canyon; and 4) water scour marks on the basalt plateau leading to the canyon. Scientists calculate that the flood was so large that it could have eroded the whole canyon in as little as 35 days. See the journal Science, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood, and the Journal of Creation, and Creation Magazine. * Manganese Nodules Rapid Formation: Allegedly, as claimed at the Wikipedia entry from 2005 through 2021: "Nodule growth is one of the slowest of all geological phenomena – in the order of a centimeter over several million years." Wow, that would be slow! And a Texas A&M Marine Sciences technical slide presentation says, “They grow very slowly (mm/million years) and can be tens of millions of years old.” But according to a World Almanac documentary they have formed "around beer cans," said marine geologist Dr. John Yates in the 1997 video Universe Beneath the Sea: The Next Frontier. There are also reports of manganese nodules forming around ships sunk in the First World War. See more at at youngearth.com, at TOL, in the print edition of the Journal of Creation, and in this typical forum discussion with atheists (at the Chicago Cubs forum no less :). * "6,000 year-old" Mitochondrial Eve: As the Bible calls "Eve... the mother of all living" (Gen. 3:20), genetic researchers have named the one woman from whom all humans have descended "Mitochondrial Eve." But in a scientific attempt to date her existence, they openly admit that they included chimpanzee DNA in their analysis in order to get what they viewed as a reasonably old date of 200,000 years ago (which is still surprisingly recent from their perspective, but old enough not to strain Darwinian theory too much). But then as widely reported including by Science magazine, when they dropped the chimp data and used only actual human mutation rates, that process determined that Eve lived only six thousand years ago! In Ann Gibbon's Science article, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," rather than again using circular reasoning by assuming their conclusion (that humans evolved from ape-like creatures), they performed their calculations using actual measured mutation rates. This peer-reviewed journal then reported that if these rates have been constant, "mitochondrial Eve… would be a mere 6000 years old." See also the journal Nature and creation.com's "A shrinking date for Eve," and Walt Brown's assessment. Expectedly though, evolutionists have found a way to reject their own unbiased finding (the conclusion contrary to their self-interest) by returning to their original method of using circular reasoning, as reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics, "calibrating against recent evidence for the divergence time of humans and chimpanzees,"  to reset their mitochondrial clock back to 200,000 years. * Even Younger Y-Chromosomal Adam: (Although he should be called, "Y-Chromosomal Noah.") While we inherit our mtDNA only from our mothers, only men have a Y chromosome (which incidentally genetically disproves the claim that the fetus is "part of the woman's body," since the little boy's y chromosome could never be part of mom's body). Based on documented mutation rates on and the extraordinary lack o

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The Daily Space
X-ray Surges Found Along With Radio Bursts From Crab Nebula

The Daily Space

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 16:55


Data analyzed from the NICER telescope aboard the ISS contains evidence of X-ray boosts accompanying radio burst detections, releasing more energy than expected as “giant radio pulses”. Plus, machine learning, yellowballs, intraterrestrial life, all the volcanoes, and updates on SN15 and Ingenuity.

This, This, and This
Knapsacks, Juggling, and The Crab Nebula

This, This, and This

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 58:48


Do you eat in bed? What time is Shrek set in? By putting your hand in a fish mouth, can you conquer your deepest, darkest fears? All this and more on This, This, and This!

Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion
Affelia Wibisono and X-rays from Uranus - Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion April 13, 2021

Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 21:57


This week, we welcome Affelia Wibisono from University College London to the show, discussing the first discovery of X-rays seen radiating from the ice giant planet Uranus. But, next up, we take a look at the oldest, closest pairs of quasars yet seen in the early Universe. We will also look at the pulsar at the core of the Crab Nebula, revealing secrets of these enigmatic bodies. Then, we travel to Mars, examining the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another world, as Ingenuity prepares for its first flight on the Red Planet. Listen to the podcast version of this episode here, or watch the video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/okCLultDsHA --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-cosmic-companion/support

When the Curves Line Up
2021, April 10: Mars, Taurus, Crab Nebula

When the Curves Line Up

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2021 6:20


April 10, 2021: After sunset, Mars is about halfway up in the western sky near the horns of Taurus. Mars is somewhat close to the Crab Nebula. A telescope reveals a dim, cloudy patch of light. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://whenthecurveslineup.com/2021/04/02/2021-april-10-mars-taurus-crab-nebula/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-l-hunt/support

Sky Walk Podcast
M1, The Crab Nebula - Episode 1

Sky Walk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 50:42


Welcome to the first installment of a new podcast. Make sure to follow the Twitter: @SkyWalkPod so that you can follow along to the episode with graphics and pictures! Today we go over the groundwork as to how we will be going about this podcast. Also, we talk about our first Messier object, M1: The Crab Nebula. Hope you enjoy! https://twitter.com/skywalkpod

The Daily Space
Newly Discovered Solar System Object is ‘Farfarout’

The Daily Space

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 21:00


A newly found object nearly four times farther out from the Sun than Pluto now holds the record for the farthest observed in our solar system. Plus, forming Super Earths, finding potentially habitable planets, jellyfish galaxies, the Crab Nebula, and this week’s What’s Up.

QUO Fast Radio Bursts
E02: Crab Pulsar ft. Akanksha

QUO Fast Radio Bursts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 49:44


Introduction:The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) is located in Algonquin Park and has been operating since the 1960s.Pulsars are a type of Neutron star that act like cosmic lighthouses, with spinning beams of radio waves.The Crab Nebula has a pulsar at its center which rotates very quickly and is connected with a supernova that could be seen from Earth in the year 1054.Giant Pulses:Sometimes a pulse from a pulsar is far brighter than normal, we call these giant pulses.The reason that these happen is not entirely understoodThese pulses often have interesting structure and can teach us about what is happening on and around the pulsar.Akanksha's Work:Observing the Crab Pulsar with the ARO, Akanksha found over 100,000 radio signal events and sorted down to a few interesting pulses.She noticed one pulse behave like none she had ever seen before.She developed a model to explain the unusual pulse. Perhaps some radio waves bounce off material in the Crab Nebula.This new model is able to account for the observations and predict a new type of pulse that may be seen in the future.We eagerly wait for more observations that may prove, disprove, or refine her theories!Links to Science Outreach Material:McDonald InstituteRoyal Astronomical SocietyAstronomy on TapSpecial thanks to Colin Vendromin for the music also thanks to Zac Kenny for the logo!

Astronomy Photo of the Day - 2020
06 September - M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble

Astronomy Photo of the Day - 2020

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 4:47


Bible Study Evangelista Show

This highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula combines data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum. The picture includes data from five different telescopes: the Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) in yellow; the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (radio) in red; Hubble Space Telescope (visible) in green; XMM-Newton (ultraviolet) in blue; and Chandra X-ray Observatory (X-ray) in purple. Notice that the green color is all we can (could) see with our own eyes. The rest is invisible to natural human sight. Friends of the Show get all Premium Content! Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show: George S; Valerie K; Erin K; Stacy C; and Dori S, for loving and lifting me! LOVE the Word® is a Bible study method based on Mary's own practice: lectio without the Latin. Get the book based on Sonja's method in the right margin, How to Pray Like Mary. L - Listen (Receive the Word via audio or video.)    O - Observe (Connect the passage to your life and recent events.) Read this article to learn how college students are living out the call to solidarity as CRS Student Ambassadors. How can you work to educate others about issues that impact our brothers and sisters at home and around the world? or Explore quantum mechanics here.  From the Examination of Conscience in Light of Social Teaching Do you believe that “we are all really responsible for all”? If so, how does this challenge you? How can you join with others to take concrete steps—big or small—to help build a society of solidarity? Does the way I spend my time reflect a genuine concern for others? Is solidarity incorporated into my prayer and spirituality? Do I lift up vulnerable people throughout the world in my prayer, or is it reserved for only my personal concerns? Am I attentive only to my local neighbors or also those across the globe? Do I see all members of the human family as my brothers and sisters? V - Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.) Remembering that He loves you and that you are in His presence, talk to God about the particulars of your O – Observe step. You may want to write your reflections in your LOVE the Word® journal. Or, get a free journal page and guide in the right-hand margin. E - Entrust (May it be done to me according to your word!) Lord, Creator, and Father of all people, sensitize me to the suffering of others so that I can overcome indifference and build up a civilization of love and solidarity. Amen +  Show Notes Topics Discussed: Catholic social justice principle #6, solidarity and connectedness Quantum mechanics and God Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate) St. Catherine of Sienna's Dialogue  St. Thomas Aqunias' Summa on being (existence), evil, and angels Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 - Solidarity as oneness, the science behind oneness    Minutes 12:01-24:00 - Quantum mechanics and God  Minutes 24:01-36:00 - Love as the connecting energy, Matthew 18:21-34 and the parable of the unforgiving servant Minutes 36:01-48:00 - Gratitude and forgiveness as ways to act in solidarity with all Additional Resources: More on Solidarity from the Bible and Church documents  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching Book, Amazon: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and USCCB Bible Study Evangelista is on the Laudate app! Facebook Discussion Community We're talking about solidarity over on the Bible Study Evangelista Facebook Discussion page. Come chat with us. Read the Transcript You can download a complete, word-for-word transcript of this show, here.

THE SPIRITUAL POEMS OF UMBUKU

An old poem from the past. Hope you've enjoyed so far. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Good day listener. My goal is to spiritually reach MILLIONS of people and assist them with their awakening and/or transition into this realm of new found information. Welcome. If something I've said has inspired you, helped you, motivated you and only if you feel I'm worth it, I ask that you support my efforts with $1.00 but ONLY if you think I'm worth it. If you do, please Include the title of the poem that moved you to contribute. Thank you, and I appreciate you stopping by. $UMBUKU My affirmations: I will be the best husband and treat my wife the same if not, better than my dad treated my mother. I will be the best dad, and raise my children to positively dominate and be successful in society by use of their natural gifts and abilities. I will maintain superior physical, mental and spiritual health until I transition into the ancestral realm. I will be a retired Marine and enjoy all of the benefits that come with it. I AM the best poet in the world. I will continue to receive and deliver poetry to all listening spirits within the galaxy. My poetry will attain millions of dollars, and a mass amount of wealth for me and my family. I will transfer that money into property, and rent that property out below the fair market rent value to low income families, providing them the opportunity to save and accumulate wealth in order to purchase their own property to experience the feeling of home ownership. I will continue to spread positive energy and attract large crowds of people to enjoy each other's company, good conversations, good food, good music, and good positive vibrations.

Universe Unplugged
A 3D Exploration of the Crab Nebula - AstroViz

Universe Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020


This 3D visualization features the Crab Nebula, the glowing remains of a supernova explosion witnessed by Chinese astronomers nearly 1,000 years ago.

Astronomy Photo of the Day - 2020
19 January - The Incredible Expanding Crab Nebula

Astronomy Photo of the Day - 2020

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2020 4:23


The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
A Tour of the Crab Nebula 3D Visualization

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2020


Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined X-ray, visible, and infrared wavelengths to create a 3D representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula.

The Last Panel
God Hates Astronauts

The Last Panel

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2019 67:45


God Hates Astronauts by Ryan Browne GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS follows the story of a group of incompetent, small-minded, super powered narcissists called "The Power Persons Five" who are hired by NASA to stop all farmers from launching themselves into space in homemade rocket ships. Unfortunately for NASA, this goal is scarcely even addressed and the book focuses more on extramarital affairs, bank-robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost cow heads, olde tyme boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers in the Crab Nebula, buffalo judges and tons of aggressive swearing. Also in this episode: The horrible stank of comic cons Kengan Chat Jesus Christ... Panelists: Jamie(@thatcomicfan), Ashley(@sierradean), Scott(@goddamnitscott), Jess (@GeekyChicky87)

AWESOME ASTRONOMY
#80 - February 2019 Part 1

AWESOME ASTRONOMY

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2019 60:54


The Discussion: Jeni’s off to La Palma to gather data on dust & gas in the Crab Nebula, did a meteor or two strike the moon during the January eclipse? And what do Europeans think (or know) about the European Space Agency? The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have: More research suggesting there are no seasonal water flows on Mars Modelling the stellar wind at Barnard’s Star Can interstellar objects survive the journey? The unusual planetary system EPIC24924646 Lunar craters show Earth had a brief impact lull 650-300 million years ago The youthful nature of Saturn’s rings More research suggesting there may be no Planet 9 The Russian company planning to put billboards in space Main news story: CERN’s plans for the monster successor to the Large Hadron Collider and what the hell that has to do with astronomy The Sky Guide: Covering the solar system and deep sky objects on offer to amateur astronomers in February. Paul: Mercury at greatest eastern elongation, a conjunction of Uranus and Mars. Ralph: Asteroid 532 Herculina at opposition and a brand new(ly discovered) comet to view in telescopes Jen: Venus and Jupiter on show in the early morning and a conjunction of Saturn and Venus Main Deep Sky Object: Messier 1, the Crab Nebula Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look at the bewildering array of theories for one of the greatest spectacles in the night sky: How did Saturn’s rings form? Scott Jorgensen, Michigan.

AWESOME ASTRONOMY
#71 - May 2018

AWESOME ASTRONOMY

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2018 67:58


The Discussion: Jeni, Paul & Ralph survived the wilds of the Brecon Beacon’s AstroCamp festival of astronomy, Jeni gathers a whole heap of astronomy interviews from the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, and we read out a couple of emails requesting advice on amateur astronomy mounts, berating us for our April Fools’ Twitter gag and asking for more content relevant to the southern hemisphere. The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have: A galaxy containing no dark matter NASA launches its new exoplanet hunting satellite An exoplanet spotted using amateur astronomy equipment The Interview: This month Jeni caught up with Dr Jane Greaves & Dr Phil Cigan from Cardiff University to talk about their work finding phosphorus in the Crab Nebula – and why phosphorus is so important to life. Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we take a look at atmospheres & the habitability of exoplanets: I thought red-dwarf stars were typically much more volatile than our g-type star and, as a result, planets in a red-dwarf system would typically be bombarded by solar storms and radiation stripping away their atmospheres and making them unlikely spots for life as we know it to be found. So how is it possible to have atmospheres around rocky planets in the Trappist 1 system? Dave Schlaudt in Michigan, USA

Dom B Podcast
Cirque Du Soleil, Gorilla, The Sandlot, Crab Nebula - Dom B Podcast 38

Dom B Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2018 21:57


Unfortunate news regarding Cirque Du Soleil member Yann Arnaud has passed away after injuries suffered from the Cirque Du Soleil show in Florida. The performers of Cirque Du Soleil are truly amazing and it’s unfortunate this happened. My condolences to Yann Arnaud’s family and friends. At the Philadelphia Zoo is his cool little guy and by little guy I mean a 500 und Gorilla named Louis. This Gorilla was captured by video walking on his 2 feet. Who doesn’t love a funny Gorilla video? One of my favorite movies The Sandlot was remember by the Milwaukie Brewers as the recreated a scene from The Sandlot. The Sandlot was also rated very low on Rotten Tomatoes… what do you think about their rating of The Sandlot? NASA has released a new composite of the Crab Nebula. Listen in as I spew some facts about the Crab nebula! What was your favorite fact of the Crab Nebula that I’ve listed in this video? For more of my work please go to iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dom-b-podcast/id1313384769?mt=2 Dom B Website - http://www.dombphotography.com/ Dom B Instagram - @dombphotography Dom B Twitter - @dombpodcast Dom B Facebook (Business) - https://www.facebook.com/Dom-B-Photography-484353875094683/?ref=bookmarks Dom B Facebook Personal - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010289703861 Side Hustles and Big Dreams Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-chat-with-dom-b/id1355386627?i=1000406820382&mt=2 What would you weigh on Crab Pulsar? - https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra, optical data from Hubble, and infrared data from Spitzer.

setisoppO
Ep 056: Gary Oldman, Toenails, Crab Nebula

setisoppO

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 0:17


It’s quite the eclectic mix this week, as we try and work out what is the opposite of Gary Oldman, toenails, and the Crab Nebula. Now, you surely have your own opinions, so why not let us know what you think? We have a Facebook page too, which is a lot of fun and frolics (frolics not guaranteed). Are we right?

The Space Shot
Episode 43: Messier & Seasat

The Space Shot

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 4:45


Episode Links: Messier Object 1- The Crab Nebula (http://messier.seds.org/m/m001.html) Messier Marathon- APOD (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080419.html) Astronomy Clubs Near Me- Sky & Telescope (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-clubs-organizations/) Messier History (http://www.constellation-guide.com/messier-objects/) Crab Nebula (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1604.html) Sombrero Galaxy (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_283.html) Seasat Launch Information (June 27th) (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/seasat/) Seasat Launch Informaiton (June 28th) (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSAT) Seasat NASA Spacecraft Database (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1978-064A)

Relatively Certain
JQI Podcast Episode 12

Relatively Certain

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2017 14:27


In our own galaxy and beyond, violent collisions fling a never-ending stream of stuff at the earth, and astrophysicists are eager to learn more about the processes that produce this cosmic barrage.Researchers from around the world have teamed up to build the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gammy-ray observatory, an array of hundreds of huge water tanks on a mountain in Mexico. HAWC helps astrophysicists spot active cosmic neighborhoods by capturing the shower of particles created when high-energy packets of light smash into the earth’s atmosphere.Jordan Goodman, HAWC’s lead investigator, and Dan Fiorino, a postdoctoral researcher at UMD, tell Chris Cesare about the details of the HAWC experiment and how it promises to fill some gaps in our understanding of the universe. To learn more about HAWC, please visit www.hawc-observatory.org. The collaboration is preparing to publish the first results of its search, and you can read about the details in an upcoming source catalog or a paper about high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula.This episode of Relatively Certain was produced by Chris Cesare, Sean Kelley and Emily Edwards and edited by Chris Cesare and Kate Delossantos, featuring music by Dave Depper, Podington Bear, Kevin MacLeod and Chris Zabriskie. Relatively Certain is a production of the Joint Quantum Institute and the University of Maryland, and you can find it on iTunes, Google Play or Soundcloud.

Orbital Path
Mini-sode 1: NASA’s NICER Mission

Orbital Path

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2017 6:28


Listeners, we’ve heard you! You requested more episodes, so we present the first of our mini episodes. They’ll arrive two weeks after each monthly regular episode, and include Michelle Thaller’s insight on the latest space news. Enjoy episode one: NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) mission will launch in May. Michelle explains the NICER mission’s many applications, including the possibility of using neutron stars as intergalactic global positioning systems. Orbital Path is produced by Justin O’Neill and editor Andrea Mustain. Production oversight by John Barth and Genevieve Sponsler. Hosted by Michelle Thaller. Image courtesy NASA: A star’s spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a superdense neutron star left behind by the stellar death is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. This composite image uses data from three of NASA’s Great Observatories.

AWESOME ASTRONOMY
Sky Guide February 2017

AWESOME ASTRONOMY

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2017 10:51


What to look out, and up, for in February. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: A last chance look at Mercury in the morning sky Mars a few degrees from Venus Jupiter in Virgo Saturn in the early morning sky Next up is the return of a couple of comets to our observing tick list: Comet 45P at its best on the 11th February in Hercules Comet 2P Encke returns to our skies in the constellation Pisces Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year: Ralph – the Rosette Nebula and open cluster NGC2244 in the constellation Monoceros Paul – open cluster M93 in Pupis Jeni – supernova remnant, Messier 1 – the Crab Nebula - in Taurus And we finish this sky guide with February’s moon phases, a conjunction with the Hyades Cluster on the 5th and a penumbral eclipse on 10th/11th February.

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy - for iPad/Mac/PC

What happens when a star explodes? Learn how all the elements in the Universe were formed, and where exactly your favourite silver necklace comes from.

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy - for iPod/iPhone

What happens when a star explodes? Learn how all the elements in the Universe were formed, and where exactly your favourite silver necklace comes from.

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy - for iPod/iPhone

Transcript -- What happens when a star explodes? Learn how all the elements in the Universe were formed, and where exactly your favourite silver necklace comes from.

60-Second Adventures in Astronomy - for iPad/Mac/PC

Transcript -- What happens when a star explodes? Learn how all the elements in the Universe were formed, and where exactly your favourite silver necklace comes from.

The Awesomology Podcast
Kat Wiggins Flings Comets At the Crab Nebula

The Awesomology Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2012 57:00


Esteemed Awesomologist and television expert Katherine Wiggins visits the Academy of Awesomology to talk election (hopefully for as little time as possible) and TV!

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest sources of high-energy radiation in the sky.

16. Stars 3
Supernova Frequency

16. Stars 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2011 1:01


Transcript: Supernovae are rare because they represent the death stage of rare massive stars. On average, one occurs every fifty years in an entire galaxy. We might expect one in a human lifetime in the Milky Way, but a supernova might not be visible if it lies behind the dusty plane of the Milky Way. Ancient Chinese astronomers called them guest stars, and there’s good evidence that the star of Bethlehem was in fact a supernova. Perhaps the most famous supernova is the explosion that gave rise to the Crab Nebula. At the time it exploded it was visible in broad daylight for twenty-three days in July 1054 and at night for another six months afterwards. The Crab Nebula was recorded in Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic documents, and in Native American rock art. There have been fourteen supernovae in recorded human history, and in a sense we’re long overdue because the last one was nearly 400 years ago.

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
Multiwavelength Crab Nebula in 60 Seconds

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2009


The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied objects in the night sky. This version of the Crab Nebula combines data from three different telescopes.

SEXY-FUNKY-DIRTY, ELECTRO HOUSE 3
May Anthems - Cheese and Wine

SEXY-FUNKY-DIRTY, ELECTRO HOUSE 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2009 65:13


Hi Guys, So since I haven't put out a new mix in a while I thought it might be an idea to upload a mix I did in a rush for a party of my friends in May. Its not really the greatest mix I have done but its chock full of some wicked new school and old school anthems, all tracks I wanted to use to get the crowd going. Apologise for the sound quality, I really need some help with tweaking my set up to improve the sound quality its distorting a lot and quite, not sure what to do exactly. Perhaps as i suspect I have a faulty sound card. I tried a few things in this mix, and really REALLY rushed it out so forgive me.. PLEASE! one of the first bits i tried was a mashup of the new Bonkers track by dizze rascal and Ill to kill by The Bloody Beetroots.. I think this would have sounded much better in higher qaulity.. but let me know your thoughts. The best half of the mix is definitely the second half, especially if your not one to like listening to the same old school anthems like Eurythmics again! Anyway.. enough from me for now! I have some amazing new music and will be focusing my next mix in TWO WEEKS (will be up ideally a week from now) on all this new music.. so until then ADIOS. Track Listing: 1. Bonkers – Dizee Rascal & Armind Van Helden 2. Ill to destroy – The Bloody Beetroots 3. Show Me Love (Safari Mix) - Mobin Master 4. Crab Nebula – Shane Silver 5. Smooth Criminal (LAZRtag remix) – Michael Jackson 6. Sweet Dreams (Steve Angello Mix) - Eurythmics 7. Falling Anthem (Herve’s We Are a Beautiful Disaster Remix) - Herve feat Alyssa Palmer 8. We Are Your Friends (Kid Legit remix) – Justice Vs Simian 9. If U Seek Amy (Crookers Mix) - Britney Spears 10. I want you (Laidback Luke rMx) – Martin Solveig 11. Harder Better Faster Stronger (Coin Operated Remix) – Daft Punk 12. Pyramid (Dirty South Remix) – John Dahlback 13. WoW (Mstrkrft Remix) – Kylie Minogue 14. Leave the world behind (Steve Angello, Axwell, Sebastiian Ingross remix) - Deborah Cox 15. Lala Song (Tocadisco Remix) –Bob Sinclar, Sugar Hill Gang 16. Miami to Atlanta – Pryda 17. The Girl And The Robot (Spencer & Hill Remix) – Royksopp

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

The Crab Nebula is one of the best-known images ever taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NASA's Touch the Invisible Sky Audio Podcasts

A supernova is the dramatic end of a supergiant star's life. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a powerful supernova which was visible from Earth in the year 1054. This supernova was so bright that it could be seen in the daytime sky for 23 days, and it was documented by astronomers throughout the Far East. The Crab Nebula is found in the constellation of Taurus and got its name because its outer shape roughly resembles a Crab's pincer.

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD
The Crab Nebula in 60 Seconds

The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2008


In 1054 A.D., a star's death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth. Now, almost a thousand years later, a superdense neutron star left behind by the explosion is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula.

Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 02/05

The cosmic origin and evolution is encoded in the large-scale matter distribution observed in astronomical surveys. Galaxy redshift surveys have become in the recent years one of the best probes for cosmic large-scale structures. They are complementary to other information sources like the cosmic microwave background, since they trace a different epoch of the Universe, the time after reionization at which the Universe became transparent, covering about the last twelve billion years. Regarding that the Universe is about thirteen billion years old, galaxy surveys cover a huge range of time, even if the sensitivity limitations of the detectors do not permit to reach the furthermost sources in the transparent Universe. This makes galaxy surveys extremely interesting for cosmological evolution studies. The observables, galaxy position in the sky, galaxy ma gnitude and redshift, however, give an incomplete representation of the real structures in the Universe, not only due to the limitations and uncertainties in the measurements, but also due to their biased nature. They trace the underlying continuous dark matter field only partially being a discrete sample of the luminous baryonic distribution. In addition, galaxy catalogues are plagued by many complications. Some have a physical foundation, as mentioned before, others are due to the observation process. The problem of reconstructing the underlying density field, which permits to make cosmological studies, thus requires a statistical approach. This thesis describes a cosmic cartography project. The necessary concepts, mathematical frame-work, and numerical algorithms are thoroughly analyzed. On that basis a Bayesian software tool is implemented. The resulting Argo-code allows to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale cosmological structure with unprecedented accuracy and flexibility. This is achieved by jointly estimating the large-scale density along with a variety of other parameters ---such as the cosmic flow, the small-scale peculiar velocity field, and the power-spectrum--- from the information provided by galaxy redshift surveys. Furthermore, Argo is capable of dealing with many observational issues like mask-effects, galaxy selection criteria, blurring and noise in a very efficient implementation of an operator based formalism which was carefully derived for this purpose. Thanks to the achieved high efficiency of Argo the application of iterative sampling algorithms based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo is now possible. This will ultimately lead to a full description of the matter distribution with all its relevant parameters like velocities, power spectra, galaxy bias, etc., including the associated uncertainties. Some applications are shown, in which such techniques are used. A rejection sampling scheme is successfully applied to correct for the observational redshift-distortions effect which is especially severe in regimes of non-linear structure formation, causing the so-called finger-of-god effect. Also a Gibbs-sampling algorithm for power-spectrum determination is presented and some preliminary results are shown in which the correct level and shape of the power-spectrum is recovered solely from the data. We present in an additional appendix the gravitational collapse and subsequent neutrino-driven explosion of the low-mass end of stars that undergo core-collapse Supernovae. We obtain results which are for the first time compatible with the Crab Nebula.

Faith Community Church
10-8-06 -- Science - What is True? - Audio

Faith Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2006 51:48


Pastor Michael Powers: October 8, 2006 The Truth Project, Part 5: Science-What is True? We're going to have a lot of visuals today up on the screen behind you. What we're basically talking about, in the whole Truth Project, is being able to view everything in life through a Biblical lens and through the eyes of God. First of all, I remember being in school and seeing this slow-motion sneeze. I thought that was so cool. The thought that mucus and stuff can fly out of you at 100 miles per hour: now you know why I'm a youth pastor. Why do we not stop and just take a look around? God is calling out to us from His Creation everywhere we go. So we're going to start with the fourth day of the Creation week: the sun, the moon, and the stars. Follow along with me here [in Genesis 1:14 (Page 1 of pew Bibles)], “And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years to separate the day from the night and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so. God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.” We're going to focus in on one little sentence fragment: “He also made the stars.” I find this amazing. It's an afterthought, “Oh yeah, by the way, He also made the stars.” And then they just move on. Let's take a look through the Hubble telescope, and you, as an American citizen, own these images. If you go to a site called Hubble.org, you will find these. Are you ready? Let's look at the afterthought of the stars (pictures are showing on the screen): the Cat's Eye Nebula; the Orion Nebula; the Boomerang Nebula; the Helix Nebula; Derek Pratt's personal favorite, the Sombrero Galaxy; the Ring Galaxy; the Whirlpool Galaxy; Planetary Nebula M29; Nebula NGC 3603 (What? All the cool names are taken, so now we're just going with numbers apparently.); the Mosaic of the Crab Nebula; the Eagle Nebula; just in is N7 635; and finally the Cone Nebula. Those are the stars that are just flippantly mentioned there. By the Word of the Lord where the Heavens made their starry host by the breath of His mouth. Can you imagine being there when God went, “Hoohhh,” and an entire Whirlpool Galaxy came out of His mouth and was set into place? Now just for fun, this morning, turn to the person next to you and go, “Hoohhh” (congregation laughing). Just kidding. Wouldn't that be fun, to find out who brushed their teeth this morning? He determined the number of the stars and called them each by name. Absolutely amazing to me. If you watch the Truth Project DVD this week, you're going to find out that as of 2003, they figured there are 70 sextillion stars. I don't know what that number means. I think it's kind of a risky name, but that's what we are calling it. That is the number 70 followed by 21 zeros. You cannot fathom, I cannot fathom, what that number means. God called them by name. He doesn't call them N76305; God has really cool names for all of them. Now, just for the purpose of scale, let's just take a look at…(Attention is focused on the screen behind Pastor Michael where pictures are displayed of planets)There's the earth compared to that; Jupiter got cut off in order for me to fit this picture on it, but there's the earth down in the lower left hand corner compared to Jupiter and Saturn. Not there's the sun. Look how small Jupiter is now. The earth is one little dot. That's what most of us would be familiar with. Let's start looking at some suns and things out there that we are not so familiar with. (For a visual for this section, go here: www.hubblesite.org) There's your sun down there, the little BB. Jupiter is one pixel in size. The earth is invisible at this scale. Let's find Arcturus (pointing to it on the current slide) on this next one. Jupiter is invisible at this scale. The sun is one pixel in size. Arcturus looks like a little BB or a marble, and Antares is that huge. This is what is out there. It's almost as if God was like, “You know what? There are some things out there that humans will never see even through the most powerful telescope, but I made it. Why? Because I'm God, and I can.” I find that amazing. He has stuff out there that only He and the angels will see until eternity. (Another clip is played) Psalm 19:1-4, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” One of the things that we are going to skip because we don't have time is a video I found that takes us on a six-minute journey from our sun to the outer known edge of our solar system and then to the outer known edge of the universe. If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take 3 billion years to reach the outer edge of our known universe. We're going to find out later this idea of millions and billions of years, as far as how old the earth of the universe is, is totally unbiblical. That is a fictional journey, if we could take that journey at the speed of light. That's how vast our universe is. As you look at the Hubble stars, and you look at these verses [in Psalm8:3, page 535], “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars that You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him?” See, we're taught that we are this insignificant speck in the universe, and we know the size of the known universe, and even the earth is an insignificant speck. As we will learn, and hopefully you have learned in your relationship with Christ, is that the God of the universe who breathes galaxies into existence cares about each and every one of us. Not only that, but He knows how many hairs are on our heads. That is an incredible, incredible God. Isaiah 45:18 (page 722) says, “For this is what the Lord says-He who created the Heavens, He is God; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited-He says: ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other. I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob's descendants, “Seek me in Vain.” I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.'” God said it; I believe it; that settles it; thanks for coming, ladies and gentleman. Have a nice day. We literally, if we really believe that what we have faith in is really real, we should be able to walk out of here just on that statement alone. But here's what science teaches us, “And this new discovery completely changes / everything you were ever taught about the origin of life. Oh, wait! A newer discovery totally changes what I just reported,” and on and on it goes because our ideas are fallible. They are man's ideas. When I was growing up, eggs were very good to eat. Then, sometime between my childhood and now, “Eggs are very bad to eat. They are evil. Don't put them in your body.” Now, eggs are good again. Have you ever thought, “What can I eat anymore? I don't know what air I should breathe,” because things change so much as they get all of this new information. The Word of God never changes. Man's ideas change with the wind. This is why it's so important. We'd like to show you the life-changing power of God's word. To start, please write your opinions here in the Book of Genesis, where it doesn't matter what you believe. And that's what we do. It doesn't mean six literal days. You've got God's Word as truth, and man decides what truth is. We put on our glasses, and we look: the facts are the same. Evolution and the Big Bang stories sound interesting. God says the earth was created first and then the sun, the moon, and the stars. Billions of years, the Heat Death, starting with the Big Bang: that's the history according to evolution. You have a six-day Creation. Man sins. You have thousands of years of sin and death. You have a heat destruction. God creates a new heaven and a new earth, and then you have eternity. What happens is we throw the Bible out. We decide, “Hmmm. That sounds interesting. Let's use man-made ideas and revelations.” Six literal days or millions of years? This is why it's important. Don't let anybody tell you that this is a side issue. You look in the Creation story, and it says over and over and over, “There was evening and the morning, first day.” It's almost as if God knew. Caleb, my 11-year old, when I was preparing for kids' camp this summer…As we were going through this, he was kind of paying attention to what I was studying. He said, “Dad, it's almost as if God knew that people were going to come along and say that each day was millions or billions of years. It's like God has a sense of humor, and he put that in there, so there would be no question.” The Hebrew word for day here is the word Yom. It always, always, always means “a literal 24-hour day.” If you were to ask any Hebrew scholar, going just by what the Bible says, “Are these literal days or not?” they would say, “Absolutely, positively it says they are literal 24-hour days.” Then, millions of years come up because of man's outside influence on the Word of God. Also interesting, if you believe in theistic evolution or that God used evolution, and each of those days aren't literal days, they stand for millions or billions of years, I find it interesting that God created the plants on day three and the sun on day four. You tell me how those plants survive on photosynthesis. It's almost as if God says, “Yup, I'm going to throw this one in there. Just wait.” (Genesis 1:31), “God saw all that He had made, and it was very good, and there was evening and morning the sixth day.” Here's what the Bible teaches: Six-day Creation; man; Adam and Eve sin; that causes death and the curse; and everything that goes wrong with the earth is because of that. Evolution teaches that if evolution is true and millions of years are true, you have sin and death before Adam and Eve and before the Garden of Eden. These are two very conflicting stories. So, if God looks down and says, “It is very good,” He should be able to say that; but if evolution is true, and there's all that before Adam and Eve, then God looks down and says, “It is very good.” Or… “After millions of years of mutations, vast extinctions, devastating diseases, and violent death, God saw all that He had evolved, and behold, it was very good.” God created a perfect world. Sin enters the picture, and now we have a cursed world full of sin and death and destruction. Then Jesus comes on the cross, and He makes a way so that our separation from God can be made as far as a relationship goes; and in the future, He's going to make a new Heaven and a new earth. It's going to be like the Garden of Eden all over again. Are you going to base your belief on the infallible Word of God or on man's fallible ideas? Here's the deal: If six Creation days are in your path, then God's the authority. He sets the rules, and you're made with a purpose; but if millions of years are in your past, man is the authority and relative morality. It makes sense why a kid would go to school, pull out a gun, and start shooting people. If kids really are believing what they are taught in our schools, they are taught that they are an accident; there is no God, there is no higher calling that they are accountable to, you can do whatever you want. It's amazing that we're shocked that our students actually believe what they are taught. Here's what it really comes down to. Evolution destroys utterly and finely the very reason Jesus' earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble, you will find the sorry remains of the Son of God. If Jesus was not the Redeemer who died for our sins and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing. If you include millions of years and evolution and all of that, Jesus Christ is a liar. The Bible should be thrown out the window. Jesus referred to Genesis many, many times. He is called the “second Adam.” He had to come make right what we made wrong. Here's the deal: the Bible talks about preaching to the Jews and preaching to the Greeks. Preaching to the Jews are people that already have a Creation background. The Jewish people of the time had the Old Testament. They knew the story accurately. When it comes to the cross, that's their stumbling point. You speak to the Greeks, and the cross is foolishness. You have to take them back to the beginning of the story because that has been left out. If you're preaching to the world of Jews, meaning that they have a Creation background, it makes sense that you need to repent, and Jesus died for your sins; but if they don't know that, if that's been taken out of everything, it doesn't make sense at all. Now, we have a second or third generation Greek who has been indoctrinated in this. The Creation has been taken out-God has been taken out-and now they have been trained that way. Now they're teaching our students-our children-and it doesn't make sense. The cross is foolishness. We try to tell them to repent; repent from what? What is sin? We have to take them back to the beginning of the story. See, here's the problem. Satan knows exactly what to do. You destroy the foundation, and everything else comes down. What we do is we shoot at each other-we shoot at the issues, we don't deal with the foundation. We need to build that foundation back up. When you are witnessing to people, you have to know your soil. In the old days, we could just talk about Jesus from the start, and people would understand. Now, we have no understanding. Why? Why aren't people just falling on their knees when they hear the message of the cross? It's because they have not been told the beginning of the story. Let's switch gears. Let's talk about Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin said this: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organism existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. Let's see if Charles Darwin's words come true or not. (Another video is played.) Alright, let's talk about dinosaurs. If there is one tool that has been used to perpetuate the theory of evolution, it's the dinosaurs. We're going to find out if you're indoctrinated or not. A Tyrannosaurus Rex had teeth up to six inches long. So, here's my question for you: how would this dinosaur originally been described: A plant eater, a meat eater, a scavenger, or a plant and meat eater? A plant eater. I know what you're thinking, “Oh, come on. Maybe I've been with you up to this point, but now you are one crazy youth pastor.” Guess what the Bible says? This is what they would have been after the fall of man and the curse that was placed on the earth, but before that, they were created to be plant eaters. Genesis 1:30 (page 2), “‘And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food.' And it was so.” So let's just take a look. Here's a skull of an animal. Look at those teeth. What do you think that animal eats? It's a panda bear; it eats bamboo. Look at this one. It's a fruit bat; it only eats fruit. Here's a creature for you to be glad that it isn't running around Wisconsin. You look at that, and you think “wow!” It could rip a vein out of your neck. It eats seeds. The animal extracts with its sharp K9s, opening up a fruit and splitting the seeds using its incisors. Do you know what big, long scary teeth mean, if an animal has that? It means the animal has long, sharp teeth. That's all it means, but we have been indoctrinated into thinking other things. So how many of you would like to know how we fit dinosaurs in the Bible? I have heard pastors say before, “The Bible is really not a science book; that's why it doesn't mention dinosaurs. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Dinosaurs are in the Bible, but you don't fit them into the Bible because then you're using our ideas of what we believe has happened. You take the Bible and by using the history book of the universe, you explain dinosaurs because this should be our thinking in every area if we're looking through our Biblical glasses. The Bible is never wrong on anything, whether it's science, anthropology, anything. So, let's look at what the Bible says. You look in Job 40:15 (page 529); it talks about a creature called the behemoth. I want you in your head to get an image of what this creature is by God's description, “Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.” He is the chief of the ways of God. “He ranks first among the words of God…” Verse 23 picks up, “When the river rages, he is not alarmed; he is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.” Okay? National Geographic: Here is just the leg bone of a dinosaur. In 1994, the biggest dinosaur they had ever discovered was called Sauroposeidon, 60 tons and 60 feet tall. Since then, they have found a dinosaur called the Argentinasaurus, 125 feet long and 110 tons. One hundred tons is 14 school buses. Let's look at Verse 17, “His tail sways like a cedar.” Do you know what a cedar is? A cedar is a huge tree. The Bible talks about the cedars of Lebanon being used to build Solomon's temple. Now, if you were open up your NIV Bible, you will see a footnote, a little asterisk, by this animal, and it says, “Possibly the hippopotamus or the elephant.” So let's just think about that. There is a tail that sways like a cedar, and let's see if that fits with the elephant. Okay, maybe it's not the elephant; maybe it's the hippopotamus. Have you seen the hippopotamus' tail? It's this little flap of skin like a little yappy dog, and it just goes like that (waving hand back and forth). An elephant's no better. It's a little bit longer, but it's this thin wisp of a thing. What this shows is it has to be…You look at that description, and you tell me what you think that is. What this shows is this: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, but footnotes are not. So, why doesn't the word dinosaur appear in the Bible? Why couldn't God just say, “And let there be dinosaurs,” and there were dinosaurs? Wouldn't that just settle everything? King James' version was transferred into English in the year. The word dinosaur was invented in the year 1841. That's 230 years after the Bible was translated into English. Sir Richard Owen was the one who coined that term first in 1841. That is 230 years after the Bible was translated into English. If you look in an 1891 dictionary, the word dinosaur still does not appear-even in our dictionary 50 years later. Before they were called dinosaurs, they were called dragons by the people who lived on this earth. Now, the dragon that congers up an image in your mind is totally different than a dinosaur now because of the way things have changed as stories have been passed down. In a 1946 dictionary, the first listing: dragon-now rare. That doesn't appear in our dictionaries anymore. The dragons of old are the dinosaurs in history. Evolution teaches that dinosaurs died out 65 million years before man appeared on earth. If that's the case, I want to know how this man knew how to put a cave painting of a dinosaur on the wall if he had never seen a dinosaur and if we hadn't ever dug up the fossils of it until the late 1700s and the 1800s. That looks like a dinosaur to me. There's a petroglyph in National Bridges National Monument that bares striking resemblance to a dinosaur, specifically a branasaurus. What a coincidence. These guys [who drew on their walls] must have had visions of what they were, since they had never seen one. A mummified dinosaur carcass was found in Montana. Soft tissues covering 90 percent of the fossil, nail material, a beak, and skin were preserved. Here's the kicker, if this died out 65 million years ago, you tell me how all of this has been preserved. You say 65 million years ago, but we have no clue; we can't even fathom how long that is. This was in National Geographic. This wasn't some kooky guy making this up. You tell me how that lasted for 65 million years like that. Now, we have found T-Rex elastic tissue, fresh tissue, soft fibers tissue, red blood cells from a T-Rex, blood vessels, and microscopic structure squeezed out of blood vessels. That's made up mostly of water that was found in the leg bone of a T-Rex. You tell me how that lasted 65 million years and never disintegrated, never evaporated, never dried up. It's because we've been lied to. I wish I could talk more about dinosaurs, but I can't because we don't have enough time. Okay, on to fossils. This is how we are taught a fossil forms. A fish dies, it gradually sinks to the bottom. It's slowly covered with sediment, and the minerals and the bones are changed into a fossil. I don't know about you, but any fish I have ever seen floats to the surface, gets eaten, and there is nothing left. The only way that can happen is to be covered in sediments in a very quick process, perhaps Noah's flood; and if you think Noah's flood is 40 days and 40 nights of a soft rain that you could sleep to, you have not read your Bible. They have found fossils that have other fish fossils inside the stomach. Tell me how that happened, if it happened slowly over millions of years. Here is a dinosaur that was giving birth when it was covered so fast that it could not complete the birthing process. This one which is probably my favorite-my youth pastor, 21 years ago, showed this to me when he was teaching us, and it blew me away because of what I had been taught in school. This fish did not have a chance to swallow its dinner before it was covered in sediments. We are taught that the layers of rocks happened over millions and billions of years, slowly over time, and each layer represents long periods of time. Tell me how a tree can be down all the way through millions of years, so that tree just stood there for millions of years, never rotted, never died, never fell over, and the sediment slowly covered the tree. Now, I have two cats. I like cats; forgive me for this scientific experiment. Day 1, you've got a dead cat in the grass. Day 3, you've got a smelly dead cat on the grass-a very smelly dead cat by day 9. Now, part of your dead cat is missing. More of the dead cat is missing. By day 65, you don't have a cat anymore. That's what we observe happening to animals when they die. The Grand Canyon: I remember watching Fred Flintstone. He and Barney are looking at this little sign that says, “The Grand Canyon.” There is a little trickle of water, and Barney says, “Hey, Fred, I don't get it.” Fred says, “Hey, Barney, it isn't anything now, but in a few million years, it's supposed to be really something.” That's how we were taught the Grand Canyon was carved out. These are our standard beliefs. The fossil record was a gradual progression over billions of years. The formation of large canyons? Millions of years. Fossil fuels took millions of years. The geological time scale, the geological column, millions of years. Do you remember Mount St. Helens? We learned by observing science as it happened that you can have rapid sedimentation and rapid canyon formation. Let me read this to you, “Stratified layers up to 400 feet thick formed as a result of landslides, pyroclastic flow, mud flows during Mount St. Helen's eruption. Fine laminae from only a millimeter thick to more than a meter high formed in just a few seconds each. A deposit of more than 25 feet in thickness and containing upwards of 100 thin layers accumulated in just one day on June 12, 1980. We are taught that that is impossible; it takes millions of years. Perhaps the most remarkable, catastrophic event to have occurred at Mount St. Helens was a rapid erosion that was accomplished by mudflows, landslides, and waves of water. On March 19, 1982, a small eruption melted the snow that had accumulated in the crater over the winter. A resulting mudflow eroded a canyon system up to 140 feet deep. The deepest of the canyons pictured (on the screen) here has actually been called the “Little Grand Canyon.” It's 1/40th the size of its namesake. The small creek that now flows through the bottom would appear to have carved this canyon over a great length of time, but this unique event has demonstrated that rapid, catastrophic processes were instead responsible for the canyon. Here's another one. This is near Walla Walla, Washington. The top picture shows a drainage ditch off to the left. In six days, it became 1500 feet long and 120 feet deep. There was so much water that was backed up through this one river system-because of flooding and conditions that had happened which reached this damn section-that it just exploded out, and it carved this in six days. We're taught that fossils formed over long periods of time. Guess what we found? Fossilized manmade clocks; fossilized bells; a fossilized spark plug that fell off of an outboard motor, sank to the bottom of the ocean, and over a period of 30-40 years, a rock formed around it; a fossilized miner's hat-50 years of being dropped in this mine with this mineralized water, and it is totally rock hard. You see, we have been taught that all this has happened over millions of years, and again, I wish I had time to even talk to you about Noah's flood in that. The majority of the fossil record was laid down through Noah's flood. People will tell you it was a local flood. You read the description in the Bible of what it says; here's your local flood: If it was a local flood, why didn't all the people just leave that area? Why did two of every animal have to be on the arc if they could have just lived? Especially the birds, why couldn't they have just flown to a different area? As we close this up [we again refer to Psalm 8:3, page 535], “When I consider Your Heavens, the work of your fingers-the moon and the stars which You have set in place-what is man that you are mindful of him?” God had a plan. We're going to watch a video called “The One Thing You Would Need.” This is God reaching out to His Creation, not abandoning us when we sin, but reaching out to His Creation. I don't know about you, but I am so glad that God did not just abandon us and go His own way. The handout that you hopefully received as you came in (if you didn't, you should be able to grab one on the way out) talks about the history of the universe according to the Word of God. The Seven “Cs” of Creation: Creation; Corruption (the fall of man); Catastrophe (the worldwide cataclysm of Noah's flood); you've got Confusion at the tower of Babel; Christ coming to earth to make things right; what he did on the Cross to allow us to have a relationship with the God of the universe; and in the future, when God takes everything back to the way he originally intended it-Consummation. I hope you take some time to read that through today. I gave that to you beforehand in case I was boring, and you needed something to read. At the back, we have a table that has a lot of resources, and if you want one book that would give you an overview (in case this is all new to you) of this whole controversy and the war of the world views, this is the one to get. It's back there. Paul Ryan has just an amazing knowledge of this subject. If you have any questions, you're welcome to ask me afterwards. You're welcome to talk with him, and hopefully we should be able to answer any questions. If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up (congregation laughing). No, we'll find out the answer for you and get back to you. If something comes up in a discussion, and you have no idea how to answer it, go to www.answersingenesis.org. In case you don't know who Ken Hamm is, he the Australian guy who has a Creation museum opening up in April of next year in Kentucky. Also, my wife and I have a website that if you go to www.heartforteens.com or www.hearthtouchers.com and go to Creation_evolution, it opens up a whole super library of Creation things which should give you answers to anything you'd like. All right, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much that Your Word does not change and that we can put our trust in something that has not changed, will not change, and will never change in the future, and that we can trust every single word of Your Bible. Lord, we pray that you will help us to have our Biblical glasses on, that all the training we have had in worldview, that comes from a world's perspective, Lord, you will help us to filter all that stuff through Your Word and be able to live our lives, living out as children of the King of the Universe. I pray this in Jesus' name, Amen.